Whether or not there exists the higher objective of true equilibrium, the truth is the truth, and all creatures who are aware of it shall live by it. The following is my attempt to envisage a human reality in which we do live by the truth - a humantrue society.
Overall Principles. A humantrue society shall be structured by supraconsciousness in such a way as to be always subject to humantrue awareness and to allow and enable life to be lived according to this awareness. It will be a matter of each of us understanding what had to be done, what we are individually capable of doing, and putting all this together so that all things areproperly done. It will be a matter of individual responsibility, not of permanent institutions of leadership which disallow, or discourage, and work against such co-operation. Humantrue society will fulfil our definition of human being, serve the code of individual behaviour, and have as its prime objective the well-being of humanity and all Earth. It will bind us together as one united human race, with no significant differences or artificial divisions. The whole framework will be our means of providing for our subsistence, our good health, and the general enrichment of life.
For such a society to come into being everyone must know that life is not to be a matter of individuals feathering their own nests, carving out defensive positions in the competitive world, but of each giving to a co-operative world community which cares for all individuals. It is not a matter of the submissive taking power and forcing the dominants to submit, but of all of us forsaking these existing, unnecessary extremes and uniting in comradeship. Humantrue society is not an impossible dream, but a rational awakening from a nightmare. It must be so arranged that we avoid all our familiar troubles and difficulties which seem to be inevitable but are in fact imposed by automatic reality.
Humantrue society is the means of living to be adopted if humanity is to accord with its supraconsciousness. It shall recognise that individuals value highly their moral independence but at the same time get great joy from loyalty to a cause. Such a society, by embodying humantruth, will represent the perfect cause, which allows individuals to be independent except of their own true responsibility. Whilst everyone would be receiving, the accent would be on each giving.
Whilst rejecting money-economic enterprise, humantruth does not rule out responsible free enterprise on the part of individuals for the benefit of humanity at large and without personal reward or any expectation of it. Supraconscious humans will represent or prefer nothing above their humanity. The framework of their society must not allow that any contrary influence be exerted, or opportunity provided. No special skill, accomplishment or knowledge shall be permitted to mark anyone out as of different status, but be regarded as an uncommon gift to the general good which one is privileged to make whilst remaining a common individual.
The concept of true equilibrium seems to me to be the answer to the universal question. The answer for humanity is similar - to know all possibilities but live with optimum practical simplicity.
In every species of natural life each generation takes its temporary place in the permanent community by way of instinct, which binds the individual to a common code. In a similar way each human individual will be voluntarily bound by a humantrue constitution whose first objective will be to see that everybody enjoys the basic provisions and comforts of life.
Once more, ask the question : why are we living? Unless it is to fulfil truth, and so increase universal true influence, there is absolutely no point in life, only the temporary instinctive experience of taking part in it. That is enough for creatures of instinct who are not yet capable of more, but for us it can not be enough. Just as our intellect makes us aware of our mortality, so can it make us aware that the fulfilment of truth is our purpose, the reason why we are living, and that the reason for the individual tragedy of death is the same as that which offers the gift of true fulfilment. And I submit that our eventual demise as a species will not be the end, but a completed stage in the continuing process of truth and energy drawing together towards equilibrium.
Automated conscious will can seal up the door between the independent and utilised parts of the postconscious mind (see Figure 8), ensuring that ultimate truth can not be realised. Youth can keep this door closed against full intellect in eagerness to play the automatic game, spending the Machine's money, and energy, on instinctive pursuits. This is in the interests of the Machine, which can and does so apply its lore, and so tighten its harness, that when youth becomes adult, and the door could open, it remains firmly closed. The person is then represented by its utilised mind, constructing its opinions and deciding its actions chiefly by automatic calculation. But this door canbe broken down, and the Machine defeated. In a humantrue society, because of intellation, no part of our postconscious would be closed to conscious awareness.
Fear, such as that of violence or eventual death, is emotional, yet whilst fears can be diminished by being deliberately ignored or denied, they can also be increased by full awareness of that which is to be feared - by not being barred from consciousness. But fear of such as violence will be banished in a humantrue society, for the cause of it will not exist so that it need be thought of no longer. And such as fear of death will be banished also, because when we have considered these matters with deep supraconscious intellation, we shall be afraid no longer.
In a humantrue reality, everything in life will be benignly supportive of life. Our society will be built on, and depend on, gentleness, selfless endeavour, giving, compassion and peaceful contentment - the comely, goodly elements of human being which both care for and create things of goodness, the true ingredients of human happiness in harmony. The moral person will not have all kinds of alternative opinions to fall back on when morality became boring, but willhave compelling reason to remain moral, and the backing of an entire society which is notboring. Our happiness will lie in the individual, collective, and therefore total supraconscious fulfilment of human intellect, which cannot be fulfilled whilst aware of any immorality or human suffering in the world, nor of any falseness or irresponsibility in itself.
This framework of life, because it will be the best possible for humanity, will also be best for Gaia,because it will mean that we, as part of the influence for truth, will give to that influence the most constant and strong support, which will also support Gaia's protective care of life on Earth.
Whilst it is clear that our basic means of livelihood shall be simple, we, having autoprogressed as far as we have and because of our numbers, but mainly because of our intellectual needs, can not go back to the primitive. We have to recognise a certain necessary dependence on advanced technology, but must make it our obedient servant rather than master. And we should not overlook or ever forget the lessons which this automatic age has to teach, in case we are ever again tempted by the competitive urge and all its trappings and consequences.
I have considered it necessary to begin this chapter in this way because it is so easy and normal for us to slip into automatic modes of thought by which we readily reject as preposterous that which in truth is entirely reasonable, such as the structure of a humantrue society which I now venture to suggest. If you feel I have been repeating myself unnecessarily, think how easily we presently repeatedly overlook, or forget, the salutary lessons of the past.
For example, the political establishment's 'new enlightenment' which I have already mentioned, suggests that the poverty of the 'third world' arises from the fact that most poor countries still practice centralised political control, often copied from the nations which colonised them, which has caused their economies to stagnate. It goes on to suggest that if they had allowed freedom to market forces they would now be prosperous. This view derives from the fact that in general, in the West, the old authoritarian domination over many humans by a small minority has largely gone out of the window, being replaced by domination of a more subtle, indirect kind. Such practices as flexible working hours, with relaxed attitudes, and helping rather than hindering its human working units in attaining their material dreams has been found of great benefit to the prosperity of the Machine.
But this relaxation of strict human control on the part of financiers, employers and traders is counter-balanced by a stepping up of automatic control by the Machine, especially its money-economy, still represented by an elite minority. Those who, from the security of elitist privilege see this as a good thing, fail or refuse to recognise two factors. First, monetary prosperity, indicated by the stock-exchange share price index, is not synonymous with overall human well-being, indicated by a general level of happy contentment. In the most autoprogressively advanced nation, the USA, the big city leads the auto-way, pumping its kind of blood throughout the country, but city life and values are tolerable only to conditioned, automated, relatively privileged humans. Its rushing, uncaring, overwhelming pattern of control, with its noise, rubbish, down-and-outs, flyover networks and general slick and threatening sophistication, is intolerable to any fully aware human being.
Second, it was such automatic free competition in the past, between both money-economic and power interests, which created rich and poor people and nations, and brought about protests, followed by attempted political controls of those interests and some reforms. Socialism and communism were reactions to the rampant Machine, but they are now declining as capitalism makes new advances with the help of computer technology. Unless we open our eyes to the truth, this new wave will surge excitedly forward until the markets are saturated, or auto-supply and auto-demand fail to satisfy each other. This will usher in a new era of wealth riding on the back of poverty, with the struggles of competition spreading from the market-place to the battlefield until capitalism and fascism is again defeated by socialism and communism. There will be no fundamental change, only a repeat of the same futile cycle to follow, as the world becomes generally bored with half-heartedly imposed morality and eventually swings back to automatic free competition.
It is all too easy to fall into the way of blinkered, limited thinking which belongs to automatic reality. Humantrue views of society result from a long and deep process of intellation. I have no doubt that anyone who follows a similar process will broadly agree. If you find my views hard to swallow, please consider whether that might be because you have not yet intellated enough, and please take up the challenge to try further.
Practical Considerations. If the humantrue principles and constitution are to be observed and supported, it seems to me self-evident that all people throughout the world should live in similar, small, basic communities. By making the basic community the most important formal grouping in the world, whose interest every other facility served, with no greater interests predominating, we will build our framework of life to a human scale, and therefore in our true interests. The human world, represented by the common basic community maintained by individual responsibility (guaranteed by supraconsciousness), will work as one preplanned, stable, unchanging system, operating of its own accord, without permanent leaders, without fuss, and without self-made difficulties.
Our life as a whole species shall be represented by our local community life because being truly human requires total co-operation for success, and such co-operation is possible only on a small scale. So the affairs of the whole world shall be related to, and initiated by, the local community. Whereas presently people can be obliged by the Machine to act for money-economic reasons, and by governments to act for political or military reasons, they will then always act for fundamentally humantrue reasons.
In order to find such physical and emotional satisfaction as is necessary to supraconscious fulfilment, everyone shall be involved with all the basic processes of life. Instead of being divided into different categories or classes of person, or into separate situations in different countries or at different stages of life, we shall all be part of the same essential human flow; always, throughout life. We will then no longer neeed to feel alone and apart because we will each bethat which we actually are,or ought to be - one of the same species, or extended family, sharing the same truth and serving the same fundamental objectives and interests.
These communities shall be large enough to be effectively supportive of their members and companionable, but not so large as to be unwieldy and impersonal. Rather than having each family isolated in its own maintenance structure resources will be shared, also labour and responsibility. Children will have the benefit of being brought up in the company of several others, and by several adults, of various ages and temperaments, in a rounded and stimulating working environment. It will be possible to employ fewer facilities per capita - for cooking, washing, heating etc. yet make them more widely available to all. The sick and old will still be part of the vigorous pattern of community life, their care more readily and happily undertaken, and their comforts provided, for being an accepted, shared, and therefore less heavy individual burden. Such communities will engender most of their own diversions and amusements. There will also be quiet places where we can get away from each other at times.
There is bound to be disagreement on minor issues but it will not be of significance because, when humanity is guided by the supraconscious awareness of the individual, there will also be abiding agreementon all things that really matter. For example, many people might differ as to their favourite flower, yet all are agreed that flowers are beautiful. They fundamentally agree, since nobody holds that flowers are ugly, and their differences of opinion, as to which flower is most beautiful, add interest rather than threaten harmony.
Humantrue society, represented by the community, will be the mirror and embodiment of our better selves which will be our central guide despite our peripheral weaknesses. It will not be forced on us but will be a way of living which we ourselves supraconsciously aspired to, and which we both pursue with instinctive enthusiasm and self-impose with awareness of intellect.
The initial problem of forming communities in existing automatic environments, especially cities, using buildings and facilities which were not designed for such humantrue purposes, will be temporarily overcome by the tolerant understanding and sacrifice of supraconscious humanity. The city epitomises our present hierarchical, unequal, dominant Machine, and to disperse it will present practical problems and take time. Eventually we will rebuild humantruly. It will be naturally necessary, and to the benefit of our health, that we live in the open much of the time, but our species needs effective shelter and protection from the elements, particularly in cold and wet climates. Married couples, and their babies when young, might sleep in small basic dwellings which offer privacy. Daytime will be spent mostly working close by, in the community gardens and in and around the main community building where cooking, washing, making and mending facilities will be housed, and where older children, single adults, the aged and sick, and visitors will be accomodated.
Humantrue society will not be subject to perpetual automatic change. Our reality will be stable, but our individual experience of life, our direct contribution to that society, might go through four stages : To continue click here