spirituality – achieving coherence

Rise of a New Dawn

Red was painted the sky of man’s grey history, blood rained from clouds heavy, pregnant with the neglected structures and individualistic anachronisms that is our society. Individualistic rhetoric carried over from biological sciences went unquestioned as it is introduced into social conceptions of human nature and figured in shaping institutional structure and political policy. Neglect for spiritual insight and enlightened conceptions of human collective nature, social structure persisted under outdated and animalistic thought processes until disaster and ruin forced a questioning of the thought process. Pain heightens spiritual perception. Spiritual perception invites conceptual reform. Re-conceptualizing human nature allows structural reform at all levels. New versions of unity follow, Justice, Knowledge as the central process of human society. Finally power is reformed. Within this gamut specific discourses arise for conceptual, structural and practical reform. Discourses of politics, development, the harmony of science and religion, and discourse emerge first. Discourse on economics follows…

Crimson complete, red supervenes over the grey of humankind’s neglect of outdated policies and self-conceptions. The mediocre and lazy stance towards conceptions of human nature and society’s neglect of all-important spiritual discourse allowed neanderthal slogans and fragmentary conceptions to occupy the sacrosanct seat of mankind’s ideology and self-conception. Ancient and simplistic conceptions were derelictly accepted as doctrine. The grey of this neglect formed the backdrop of storm clouds that gathered over mankind’s destiny which as it poured its pregnant product mankind realized rained not rain but crimson blood. Blood of our kind, blood of our brothers, blood of our species, blood of our nieces and babies. Blood rained from the clouds of our neglect, from the clouds of our neglect of ideologies, from our neglectful ideologies. Red blood rained from our structural primitiveness. Spirituality is now forced. Pain breeds spiritual enlightenment. Blood has served it purpose. Grey neglect has bled its purpose. Crimson complete.

Capacity Building

One fundamental feature of a development process that recognizes the material and spiritual requirements of social reality is capacity building. In fact, development can almost be seen as synonymous with building capacity. The people themselves are the protagonists of their own development, as all learn to generate and apply knowledge to manifest the latent capabilities inherent in each human being. Development is not the provision of goods and services from a “developed” group to a “developing” or “underdeveloped” group. Though this may happen at some points in the process, but it is not development; for it breaks down humanity into otherness, incompatible with the principle of oneness. Every human being is inherently noble, endowed with talents and capacities that can be revealed to contribute to their community. The people are the true treasures.

What does an economic system look like that is built on these convictions?

A conception of development that ignores spirituality marginalizes the populations that it aims to serve, as well as becomes deprived of humanity’s deepest roots of motivation. Throughout human history, the achievements of religion have been moral in character; through religious teachings, people have developed the capacity to love, to unify, to seek truth, to sacrifice for the common weal. Spiritual values in development not only engages the participation of the vast majority of humanity – which approaches universal participation demanded by justice – but also elicits powerful human capacities that can serve to benefit humankind. True development necessitates spiritual principles as capacity is built.

What spiritual values are relevant to development?

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