Recovering the lost intention and goal of humanity
Survival of the “fittest” can maintain survival in mediocrity but it can never achieve long-term vitality
By the executor with power of
attorney for the living man, known as Mike, aka Alex Michael Cechanowicz
The idea that humanity as a whole, or in part can enjoy
extraordinary long-term vitality has been with me all of my life. The vision
has led me to an in-depth, systemic study of the present social architectures
and human psychology to understand why and how this has become understood as a
utopia.
Systemic thinking processes always involve looking at the
chains of cause and effect realizing that every cause is the effect of
something else. We can move forward or backward on these chains when they are mapped.
When correctly completed, “everything falls into place” and radical solutions
can be discovered. These chains of cause and effect can be followed to their
root causes. When they form positive or negative feedback loops, we can
identify the weakest link in the chain and intervene there. We seek to replace
any root cause with a solution that will create a release from the majority of
symptoms these causes create.
This approach does demand a comprehensive knowledge of many
different social structures and human psychic norms and potentials. Maybe that
is why the issues are rarely talked about, much less approached with any hope
of success. It is a daunting task.
My first approach to the problem was a systemic approach to
the question, “Does society support the ability of humanity to thrive”. I asked
this question because I realize it is a basic assumption many take with them in
their lives – that the purpose of all things is to help, make life better,
easier, solve problems etc. Social infrastructures include economic,
governmental, legal, educational, medical, religious, military, commercial and
personal social structures. I was looking for patterns and included those
prerequisites for personal or social thriving and challenged their existence.
The result of this study was the PDF-Book “Hidden Agenda”
and my conclusions were basically that every necessary prerequisite for human
thriving is missing from the current social architecture – globally. The
pattern was obviously such that very few human individuals would ever reach the
stage in their development known as Self-actualization. I refer to A. Maslow’s
model of human developmental potential.
This led me to considering the prerequisites for true
Self-actualization with much more attention. Human Self Actualization is an
expression of Vitality close to or at any present potential. This is always
expanding because we are always moving in new directions to discover new
boundaries as old ones are transcended.
Many thousands of client experiences in psychotherapy,
coaching and consulting have led me to see patterns of human behavior that
create or hinder progress to those higher potentials of human expression. My
study of these prerequisites is a natural way to become solution orientated in
any change process. I have discovered that the same processes that stop us from
developing as individuals - stop us from developing socially, politically,
economically etc.
To my knowledge, the first scientific research applied to
answer the question, “How much competition is the optimal amount for a system
to perform at its best” – was from the 1970’s. Since that time, the question
has been asked and answered in thousands of different ways. The answer to that
question is always the same: Zero, 0, Nada, Null – No competition is desired or
helpful to self-actualize any potential.
You might want to look at Gregg Braden’s book – Deep Truth
to discover some of the research that has been carried out concerning
competition.
You would expect that to be a political and economic
bombshell – but the fact of the matter is that that knowledge is buried by the
forces in our social structures that profit by proclaiming that competition is
a natural, necessary, unavoidable and good way to promote progress. We are told
that competition helps us do our best. The fact of the matter is that
competition forces us to expend energy against the competition and sacrifice
that energy we would otherwise spend on our intentions and goals.
This idea that competition is a “good” and necessary element
in our lives and our social structures is a thought-virus, a paradigm that has
created enormous amounts of serious personal and social problems that cannot be
resolved without resolving the cause of them all and that is our relationship
with the idea of competition. People associate fun, excitement, drama, rewards
and status with competition. As such it is actually worshiped by many. Humanity
must be brought to the realization that competition can only provide short-term
pleasure and long-term pain.
The following is a “short-list” of effects from the “spirit
of competition” – which I call the idea that competition is something we have
no choice about in our lives, or that it is desirable.
Resistance,
friction, rules, regulations, laws, lawyers, enforcement, judges, authorities,
confusion, secrecy, fragmentation, compartmentalization, fear, anxiety,
dis-ease, trash, predictable break-downs, fraud, misinformation, defense
systems, security systems, criminal systems, spies, violence, oppression, war,
waste, pollution, self-destruction and death.
Imagine all of these social and personal ills that are
vanquished in the blink of an eye simply by changing one single thing. There is
more to this than one simple change. It creates a cascade of different changes
that affect EVERYTHING!
It changes our focus from having a common enemy to align us,
toward having a common goal. That goal can be stated as, “Long-term vitality for self,
others and the environment”.
When we study nature from the single cell perspective – up
to the macro-environment with a filter for vitality, even using the human body
as an example, we find intelligent organization of diversity, autonomy,
truthful and relevant information transference, distribution of adequate
energy, respect for free will and synergetic relationships all for the purpose
of attaining, maintaining, expanding or defending the ability to achieve
vitality.
We discover a natural law of nature that applies equally to
you and I as it does to a blossoming rose. We seek to eliminate all competition
from our inner life and our outer life – in relationship with others and the
environment as a whole.
Some of the arguments for competition
Arguments can be made for the fact that we observe
competition in nature and it is therefore, “natural”. This is true. It is also
a choice. Lets look at how competition appears in nature and what is really
going on. In nature we have predatory plants and animals, insects and
organisms. These natural predatory elements are taking the weak and defenseless
living organisms and taking them out of circulation – actually improving their
species survival chances. When nature has too little diversity, competition
becomes a lot different. It can become self-destructive. We must realize that
nature prefers diversity as a part of its self-sustainability. Humanity,
believing in uniformity, standardization, norms, and “normal” does its best to
create monocultures for itself and for nature – taking everything out of
balance, increasing destructive competition.
The plant and animal kingdom also has a behavioral evolution
– as do humans. This evolution is thought of as collective learning. As such
there is a higher purpose to solving challenges also in this kingdom – as can
be observed as any species develops the skills necessary to overcome any
predatory threat – through inter and inner species cooperation.
Predatory humans are not the same as predatory animals. They
do not kill simply to survive and have enough to eat. They also target those
individuals in society that are socially, mentally, emotionally more advanced
than the norm. They take out the best of humanity and cause a form of backward
evolution.
Extended perspectives into human behavioral evolution shows
that human evolution involves mastery of many different skills and attitudes
over time. As such each individual has a unique progression for self along with
the general population as a whole. The existence of social predators or
parasites does serve its own purpose and that is the freedom of choice – albeit
under fully misled information. As such humanity learns to progress through
trial and error in a various states or levels of confusion – some more than
others.
Human social parasites serve a collective purpose and that
is for humanity as a whole to learn how to deal with the problem. There is a
race of Japanese Honey Bee that has learned to protect itself and the hive from
predatory wasps. When a scout wasp comes to inspect the hive, before it can
return with information and start an invasion – the bees swarm the wasp and
vibrate in such a way that the wasp dies of the heat exchange. In nature, this
is called “swarming”. It is a local self-defense system against predators. The
wasps, in order to survive, will have to find a way to harvest their own food
if they do not find another source they can “feed off of”.
Competition is not a trait that has been genetically
determined. It has been proven that our genetic blueprints are for structures
now and in the future. They do not regulate or determine behavior. The
environment is the greatest formative determinant to behavior. Biologist
Bruce Lipton does an excellent job at showing how important the
environment is for cells and humans and how symbiotic relationships are the
rule and not the exception in nature.
What about authorities?
The source for Earthly authority is said to be given to
those that represent the creator. In this case the Catholic Pope – and the
Vatican have in our time had the monopoly in the West on who was appointed
King, Queen and even Elections where possible. The Authorities in our western
culture are all legal fictions created by man. They are inventions created out
of the idea that external leadership is necessary for the good of the whole.
This is enforced by the rule of force.
The same authorities have created the system of economy we
have that is based on the presumption that money is always a limited resource,
issued as debt, and usually with interest over time and under fiat principles
that devaluate the value of money over time.
The Legal authorities on in our western civilization have
spun a spell of human free-range slavery to an economic system that is created
only in part for development. What it does is support the development of the
elite at the expense of the whole. It creates so many problems that humanity is
in “lock-down” between survival and mediocrity.
Those that have studied and/or developed their awareness to
a sufficient degree that they have become “higher-self-aware” have a level of
guidance and leadership that can never be replaced by any external authority.
This human ability – to live from the inside out from ones inner authority is
held back by the social and political “sciences” which are really no more than
materialistic dogmas. And we are living through a period of their inquisition
powers until this authority collapses onto itself – just like the church did
during the reformation.
Humanity has a period of evolution based on emotional faith
alone. There has also been a period of evolution where there is evolution based
on rationality alone. Both have thrown out the baby with the bath-water. The
human psyche is rational and emotional, just as the human brain is specialized
between fragmentation (rational) and defragmentation (sensory/emotional)
processes. These together bring the wonders of simultaneous and sequential
logic in such a way as to promote the extraordinary – especially when awareness
is focused over time.
Max Planch discovered the power of focus over time and the
fact that human awareness can penetrate deeper into matter than even
high-energy gamma rays. Its not a secret – but it is not taught either. If it
was – everybody would be using their minds at a much higher level of
performance than they do today. We are taught that it is our brains and our
genes that make us what we are. This too is only propaganda.
Thoughts, emotions dreams and intuitions are the essence of
your internal life. These are all sensory based and non-physical. You cannot
nail a thought to the wall. As such they qualify for being called “spiritual”
without getting mystical.
Research in the field of the Near-Death-Experience gives a
well-founded epistemological reason to say that human awareness survives the
death of the body. Research with hypnosis and spontaneous memories of past
lives confirm and greatly expand on our knowledge of the structure of our
“spiritual” life after we leave our bodies. All the evidence is there for you
to examine and ask yourself the question, “Why am I living such a limited life
in such a limited sense of self-awareness?”
Why this is important now?
At present, all of humanity and its infrastructures and the
environment are suffering to the point of close self-extinction and
environmental collapse. The single and most obvious cause for this is
humanity’s collective belief in the idea that competition is unavoidable,
natural, necessary and good.
Today, we have the technology to create a wonderful future
on this planet, in abundance, harmony and vitality. This technology is today
used for the opposite kind of purpose and that is to dominate, control, monitor
and regulate every single human on the planet. The development of humanity is
at the cross-roads today. It cannot be more of the same, or both; only either /
or. Humanity must make that choice today or be led by the nose to
self-destruction.
Where to start?
Most people will perhaps expect me to advise radical changes
in society as a first priority for activation. I do not suggest such an
approach. I suggest that you start by examining the degree of competition you
will discover within your psyche, your inner self and between your self and
your body. Deal with the internal competition before you deal with the
external. Do this from the inside – out.
I suggest you also deal from the top down when it comes to
discovering what is important. You will want to harmonize your self in such a
way that all of your resources support your informed conscious choices. This
means that you need to learn how your unconscious mind really works as your
autopilot. You will discover that instead of being the “boss of the show” you
will prefer to take a side seat and be the co-pilot because the unconscious
mind has so much more to offer than you do. Your unconscious mind is the only
one with real access to higher self so it pays to be friends with your “inner –
child” as some call it. Realize that your “inner-child” can also grow up to be
the higher-self. It is simply a matter of wanting it to be at an emotional
level.
You will want to be aware of the structure and quality of
your internal maps of reality. They are most likely not truly up to date
because you did not know they existed. This means you will want to examine your
reason for living, your identity, your values, your strategies, your behavior
and its exchange with the environment. It sounds like a lot of work and it is –
but by taking the time to up-grade your maps, get your compass right, turn on
your radar and get contact with “mission-control” before take off, you will be
flying much more exciting missions and doing so with much more self-confidence.
When you are harmonized within yourself, have released most
of your fear, anxiety, anger and confusion, and you see the bigger picture –
then you are ready to start harmonizing your external world be that your house,
garden, infrastructures, family, community or nation. By this time, you will
know what to do.
Why this is happening now?
You are being provided with a choice, the gist of which is
to become more self-aware in service to self and humanity in vitality, or to
continue to live in limited self awareness and confusion, or to live in higher
self awareness serving self at the expense of others. Each of those three
choices will determine your long term future as a spiritual awareness having a
human experience. You see… there is a cyclical evolutionary stage that humanity
is experiencing. In this case, you are exposed to a multiple cyclic
evolutionary stage just like lots of different waves are joining to make a big
tsunami of change in energy.
This period of time you are living in has experienced
increasing levels of “polarization” – which means the good is really good and
the bad is a lot worse than it was before. This makes it a lot easier for
people to make up their minds as to which level of evolution they are going to
go. No choice is a permanent choice in this universe. There are however choices
that do have extremely long-term consequences. This is one of those times and
one of those choices.
Stars, planets, humans, plants, animals, insects, reptiles
and microbes evolve through time. There is a physiological evolution to better
match the environment and there is an evolution of awareness – for all living
beings. As such, we are exposed to two choices, to evolve through pain, or to
do so the easy way, through pleasure. The universe demands development,
expansion of awareness to higher levels of be-ing.
At this time, there are many different “way-showers” or
“path-finders” for you to listen to, read about, look at, to follow their
example, to walk the path normally seldom traveled. This path – the pleasurable
path – is not as you might expect. It is the path of “Love” that is activated
toward self and others in balance. It is defined by the will and the act of
stretching self out to self and or others to promote long-term development. It
means discovering the pleasure of boundless curiosity and “life-long” learning
processes that lead to mastery of a growing number of skills and abilities. It
means developing, body, emotions, mind and spirit to higher levels of
performance – which is vitality at its best.
Many people have experienced that their willingness to learn
new things has turned into a subject of fear because we have been taught to be
ashamed of our “mistakes”. In reality, mistakes are the necessary prerequisites
for you to master anything at all. As such you should always prize your
mistakes as your most valuable learning experiences. With that you can dare to
extend your curiosity and give legitimacy to your dreams. Its all within you.
All you have to do is find it, keep it, and use it.
What will this paradigm look like on a social level?
Our systems of economy, governance, education, health,
welfare, religion, science, trading and international relations, are ALL
seriously infected with the spirit of competition. Their structures, fundaments
and content are all created within the context of competition as a way of life.
As such many of these systems are collapsing due to the effects of competition
within and without.
While this may seem like the “end of the world” it is only
the end of the world of competition being replaced by the spirit of vitality.
Those that would oppose these energies will, in the future, not be able to
maintain their lives on the planet. The magnetic polarization will only support
life that is “positively polarized” – of any kind.
The planet itself is also expected to undergo a make-over.
This will be survivable in cooperation with your inner self telling you where
to go and what to do. Listen to your intuitions and ask them to inform you of
important needs for change of anything.
This transition, being a paradigm shift, will have a phase
where it goes “viral” in such a way that it becomes widely enough accepted that
it is openly talked about, dealt with, explored and used. We have not yet
reached that point in time. As the energy between the forces of polarization
become more intense, the drama will most likely encourage more and more to seek
and find the only solution to the problem. There is truly only one solution and
that is to eliminate as much competition out of your life as soon as you can.
The present economic collapse enables us to look for
different ways to use money as long as we might need it for motivational
purposes. It may take several generations for all to learn that money is not
necessary in a world seeking abundance of long-term vitality. People are
motivated to make their lives and the lives of others better, when that
motivation is extended to personal curiosity about something or the desire to
master something – you have found yourself a “job” where you can contribute
your energy to develop the capacity to enjoy and experience vitality. Enjoy
your uniqueness and find a way to contribute to humanity and self without
having to suck on the energy of others.
I expect a period where re-education will be very important
for many people. I suggest that mass media be re-organized to enable this media
used, where it is useful to reach as many as possible. Further facilities can
be created to facilitate the learning process as the needed. The end result is
self-led and self-directed learning.
The structure of corporations today will have to experience
a serious transition with full responsibility for their products and their
effects on the ability to support vitality. This is not the case today. Profit
for money is legally valued more than value for humans. Corporations have
limited responsibility and are treated as though they have human rights bound
to them. They have the right to serve the spirit of collective vitality or
disappear.
Many places of work are not contributing vitality to
anything but the spirit of competition. As these become replaced with more
useful ways to contribute, many will be preoccupied with cleaning up the messes
they have left behind, re-harmonizing the planet’s environment and their own
personal lives and health. Many relationships have developed into business
relationships. When humans grow from each other, they need to take
responsibility for their future happiness. You are allowed to follow those
higher emotions that tell you that you can enjoy life more in any way as long
as it does not create suffering for others.
There is no script for the transition I am trying to
support. There is no knowing exactly how everything will fall into place. It
will be something we never have witnessed before and it will happen. It’s a lot
closer than you might think.
