Culture of Peace

by J Michael Heynen

As this year's #Christmas is confronted with further violence and wars, it becomes understandable that the world, after phases of pacification, is once again moving further away from a 'culture of peace'. This applies even more globally: There is neither a so-called world order nor a culture of peace that preserves human dignity. On the contrary: sources of conflict and military technology as well as the inability to renounce violence and far-sightedly transformative conflict management have reached civilizational proportions in the sense of mechanisms of action that endanger humanity.

In fact: Human development has reached the Anthropocene, i.e. the extensive domination of the planet by humans, at the same time to an extent that endangers humanity. This control does not refer to a spiritual level, but - that is exactly the problem - exclusively to the biosphere and geosphere. So the question is: Is it human limitation, not to say stupidity? Or is it negligent acceptance of a rather incomprehensible development? Or is it - also not to be excluded - simply long-term planning - with whatever goal?!

War and massive violence have returned to the forefront of people's minds - by whom and for whom? And shouldn't it actually be the complete opposite? Foreign ministers babble about war, about “having to win,” etc. Is even the word détente disturbing? Why have we (states/societies with a liberal-democratic basic order) not managed to move from détente to a sustainably established culture of peace as the central global benchmark for international politics? Why do entire systems keep falling back into the 20th century? Why doesn't at least Europe - the much-vaunted and incompetent peace force - manage to put the "European House" (Gorbachev) in order? Is it that so hard? What does it take for this?

A way out? As long as statehood forms the main structuring of international relations, states (even democratically constituted) will always tend towards absolutist foreign policy governing and will no longer be in control of the central, transformative, solving processes and human developments. Monetary, selfish, and geopolitical interests, the classic sublevel („Unterbau“) with no real sustainability, are obviously decisive. Every new generation begins a-historically, so history repeats itself - even without convincing reasons.

Derivation / Insight: A culture of peace only emerges individually, supported by knowledge, conscience, ethics, and shaped by reflection and inner self-determination. So the supremacy of peace lies within in order to achieve success externally. In the long run, only the subject (!) human being is the central perspective of international relations, because states have historically failed - or to put it another way: How long do we want to watch them practice? Time and again sheer (ideological-religious) political failure at the expense of human life? This is exactly where we have arrived again at Christmas 2023 and are discussing further additional risks of war. Isn't it finally enough?

It is up to the human’s individual Self to manifest a culture of peace, starting from within. Everything else is more like "child's play" - but without weapons and puberty! - Peace is not higher than reason, peace is through reason!

©  J Michael Heynen | Nomoi Institute

Noo World Order

 

NOO WORLD ORDER

A Cognitive-Imaginative “Simulation” about a Human Future, 

which begins in a Presence – and postulates Implementation!

by J Michael Heynen

I. Introduction

First: 'Noo' comes from the Greek Noos / Nous and refers to “the human ability to grasp something spiritually, and the instance in the human being that is responsible for recognizing and thinking, i.e. spirit, intellect, mind, reason, also the divine World reason… (Wikipedia).


At the same time, 'Noos' indicates the new age of humanity following the Anthropocene: the Noocene! While in the Anthropocene people had more or less control over the geosphere and biosphere of the planet, in the Noocene they begin to (re)connect with the noosphere. In doing so, life is spiritualized and spirit is vitalized; human action ultimately follows the individual self, thus from insight and knowledge, from feeling and understanding, from reason and spirit. It is possible - under the supremacy of Noos - to achieve harmonizing equilibration by controlling life processes in all spheres of human consciousness and being.

The transition into the new era, the Noocene, was marked by crises and suffering, but at the same time it was facilitated by the following sublime realization: de-individualization and extensive economization and monetization (materialism), infantilization and (self-)incapacitation, egomaniacal projections and egocentric formal rituals, disinformation and nihilistic misuse of power have irreversibly decoupled political representation and governing as well as large parts of the economy from people and societies. Politically - and also economically - presumptuous "background powers" left behind emptiness on all levels and ultimately a historically unique vacuum in terms of legitimacy and trust.

The public space thus also became a space for the emptying of humanity. The so-called “politics” and their “elites” finally paralyzed themselves and “accomplished” the finale of their, above all, systemic incompetence and satanic heresies. The resulting multiple system failures - continued losses of peace and freedom, violence and wars, bankruptcy and impoverishment - shaped the experiences of the so-called “last generation” in the Anthropocene and led to the insight-driven statement in the transition: by humans for humans!

In the transition to the Noocene, the following is already happening: people from regional and global inter-societal units come together to, beyond their cooperation in crisis management, discuss a charter for a truly new, a Noocene world order. The only requirement was that this type of representative fulfilled the following central characteristics: individuality - i.e. not a system agent of traditional, typical conformity -, then mastery of principal, transpersonal inner / outer leadership competence and integrity, creative-cognitive, i.e. spirit-guided capacity, insightful mind, and understanding their societies, then above all joy in the creative interweaving of spirit and life, of humans and societies!


The representatives of this kind come together and discuss the first draft of a so-called 'Noo World Order', which deliberately avoids legal complexity and focuses pnprinciples and paradigmatic maximes:

II. Noo World Order - Charter [ First Draft ]

Preamble

We, the representatives of respective societies, come together out of our own free will to discuss the charter of a real, new world order, a 'Noo World Order'. We put the following in front:


We are all part of creation as a space of free will; our free, co-creative development is based on the creation’s legality. In accordance with the measure and center of this law, we as the learning human part of this space strive in open, not only horizontal, but above all vertical interaction to understand creation and its source codes to the best of our abilities and, through vivification of ‚Nous‘ / spirit, to return to the universal development process (emanation). To do this, we connect back to the noosphere: generated as a spiritual intermediate level of human capacity and selectively specified in respective phases of civilization.

Today, at the beginning of the Noocene, through the reconnection with the Noosphere we have overcome the purely existential human phase of the Anthropocene integrating all the magnificent, at the same time one-sided technical and material advances. We have individually transpersonalized ourselves and in societal discourses we decided for pure leadership based on spirit and reason, insight and knowledge.

Accordingly, inner and outer knowledge justify our intention to present the normative principles of humane civilization in the following charter. We do this independently and with the pure goal of conviction and inspiration, but at the same time without any mission, i.e. non-religious / non-ideological. Our initiative serves individuals and societies to facilitate their peaceful, creative, and free development, adequately to vary in their respective cultures and to cooperate multilaterally for the joy of shaping a humane future.


With this in mind, we recommend the following maxims to critical, constructive-creative world discourses:

§ 1 Human and Creation

The human is born in a space of free will (planet earth / universe). As such, the human has rights and obligations that are derived from the universal law of creation and are to be applied in legal equality. The human's free, and especially fear-free, existence deserves the highest level of protection; his physical identity is the first condition of his metaphysical determination and development.



§ 2 Development and Fulfillment


To incarnate as a human essence as a decisive part of creation means to understand life as an opportunity and potential, to learn from the external, physical reality and to determine the individual, inner, metaphysical reality. This is the principle meaning of life, to develop the individual Self in a way that is appropriate to creation and therefore humane, and to create an emancipating life from it - as the basis of humanity.


This also includes the derived pursuit of happiness as an important part of human salvation generated from the fulfillment of transcending consciousness and mind. Because the human individual - a highly privileged subject in the universe - has the unique capacity to determine life from spirit and to form the conditions of existence from this. A human is a thinking and perceiving subject in one, if it is wanted.

§ 3 Will and Imagination


Every human is a co-creative part of creation. Only as a freely developing individual and with guidance derived form the Self he can develop autonomous will and unlimited imagination. For further creative development, he can connect with all humanly available spheres - vertical (metaphysical) as well as horizontal (physical), i.e. with the noosphere, biosphere and geosphere, etc. The transpersonal human being (Self connected) facilitating the process of equilibration (here: balancing the validity of the spheres) anticipates the intellectual normativity of the noosphere (suprematism) for the implementation of appropriate life development. Because free consciousness determines being.

§ 4 Determination and Discourse

What the individual human being as a thinker determines as the absolute - and the absolute only exists in the “inner temple” of the individual self - he, as a communicating subject, carries into the relativity of external reality. In connection with other humans, the individual positions are correlated and decided on in a prioritized manner. In teleological discourses groups, societies, and their alliances can arise from this. This process of dialogic objectification serves to create meaning and truth, to form wills and decisions, and to balance interests and conflicts in a transformative manner.

§ 5 Internal and External Leadership

The individual human being - from the emancipating and free transcendent development out of the Self - masters inner leadership confidently: from spirit and feeling – backed by universal law of thought – he has the full capacity to develop reason, logic, insight, and knowledge. So the human, deductively anticipating the general, is part of the whole in order to concretize himself in practical reason; his balancing connection with all humanly accessible spheres ensures him the substantial perception as well as love for humans and that way also the ability for external leadership. This excludes personal ego power and is mainly characterized by transpersonal comprehensive responsibility, integrity and truthfulness, inspiring creativity, persuasiveness, and holistic civility.

§ 6 Society and Contract

On the basis of transpersonal, cultural identity, a general will is established to form a society (first regionally) in order to organize coexistence and synergy under appropriate ideas and visions and to shape the future from this spirit. The respective individuals and groups constitute a free civil society and decide on a contract (similar to a constitution) in order to provisionally establish the conditions and structures of coexistence and to standardize the necessary organizational mechanisms. There is agreement in advance in unrestricted voluntary membership and in the maximum fulfillment of the Categorical Imperative (Immanuel Kant).


Procedures are regularly established to update the decision-making process in a timely manner. The same applies to the introduction of coordinating administrative structures in the so-called public space, as - in historical comparison - previous states or intergovernmental structures and functions had set up. In this context, the establishment of respective interstate / statehood is only recommended if it is possible to develop efficient procedures to exclude regularly recurring alienation from the decision-making process of society and to guarantee this in the long term.

§ 7 Society World and Cultures

Analogous to the individual, the most important foundation of a society and a societal contract lies in the spirit and development of its culture. The breadth and depth of this term - culture - reflects the historicity and creative vitality of a society. Freedom and non-violence (including psychologically mediated) are central elements and characteristics. This applies overall to internal and external societal relationships.


The specifically human quality lies primarily in their connection to other human individuals. The same applies to the learning and supporting bonds between societies. This is based on the realization that their relationships are guided neither by (qualitative) equality nor by superiority. Despite all the necessary (formal) legal equality, the respective cultural differences are not only respected, but are also seen as a decisive potential for corresponding development.


In every type of inter-societal communication, different speeds and cultural qualities of development are perceived and integrated in a complementaryly completing manner. In any case, the common maxim that must firstly to be identified is adherence to the universal law of creation and thought as a central principle of respective, mutual cooperation. In this way, cultures become the carrier of a society and at the same time a driving force for a societies’ world that carries the code for the constitution of a world society, a humane civilization.

§ 8 Society State and Governing

The contractually constituted society (usually regionally first) is made up of individuals and groups who syndicate their basic self-governing and bring it into collaboration. This means that the single individual self-governing is delegated to the level of government. This authorization applies to a kind of governing that relates exclusively to the moderation and implementing coordination of the respective free formation of societal will.


In this way, intellectual and societal connectedness establishes the form and function of a society state (regional or inter-regional), in which political power is based exclusively on comprehensive legitimacy of governing. The legitimacy of government is to be understood not only as a quantitative derivation of individual will, but especially as qualified in strict accordance with reason.


The free and humane society state essentially depends on: contract / constitution, individual decision-making, legitimacy. Equally constitutive for the functioning of the society state is the personal and professional development of its actors / representatives in accordance with reason and responsibility (to perceive as a kind of elite based on excellence). Above all, the representatives are fully transpersonally developed, but at the same time the diversity of their continuous quality and development lies in their exemplary individuality.


In forming the society state - governing as the syndication of self-governing - various reasons can lead to the fact that the full participation of all members has to be foregone. Because the highest possible, responsible quality of the function of the society state cannot be jeopardized or hindered. For this purpose, specific procedures of specific delegation mechanisms must be developed in order to ensure long-term distributive justice “in the space of free will”. In particular, the high demands on the human development capacities of the society-state (“being and becoming”) must be met and the different potentials must be promoted and combined constructively and creatively.

§ 9 Economy and Sociality


A free, humane society is not determined by the economy and its expansion, but by the rational fulfillment of existentially necessary conditions. It is not ‚having‘, but ‚being‘ derived from consciousness that shapes economic and social conditions.


The free individual disposes of property according to his performance capacity. At the same time, parts of this property are subject to social participation compensation or an appropriate social bond for civil society development in accordance with the measure of reason. The market of a free society also functions classically according to supply and demand, production and consumption. This cycle is competitive and cooperative and, above all, as a constantly corresponding qualitative growth movement to be correlated with the meaning and benefits of societal development goals.


For this purpose, the classic free, social market economy must be further qualified in the sense of reason and societal exchange between members of society. Free science and research must be directly linked with cultural and economic societal processes. The same applies to the areas of health and media etc.


In any case, the top priority is to balance individual self-determination and societal development in a targeted, complementary manner and to be negotiated and decided in a corresponding balance of interests.

§ 10 Human World and Future

After individuals, groups, and individual societies have overcome the one-sided domination of the geosphere and biosphere (Anthropocene) and decided to enter the new age, the Noocene, we recognize the particularly responsible challenge for the future in the equilibrated relationship between leadership from spirit / reason and the conditions of matter: the balancing development and sustainable implementation of a so-called noosystem.


This noosystemic, i.e. the vertical balancing of spheres (noosphere / geosphere and biosphere) as well as the simultaneous horizontal balancing (individual / society), is also successful in an “institutionalized” long-term manner when integrity, transpersonally developed individuals and representatives (in / between the societies) ensure the best possible decisions or their optimizing further development in constant, free discourse.


The mastery of consciousness and real processes equilibration is understood as a constant, future-oriented transition / transformation process for the spiritualization of life and the enlivening of spirit. In this way, a humane world is formed in the long term and, in particular, the determining power of its vertical further development of human civilization is guaranteed. In this way, the human world is opened up to its fulfillment as a connected societies’ world.

§ 11 Transitional Regulation


In the transition to the full validity of the Noocene, traditional statehood must be comprehensively and finally tailored to humans. I.e. state sovereignty and legitimacy of governing must be re-substantiated and fed back as a temporarily empowered / authorized act of individual / societal and associated self-governing (see above).


For societies that constitute themselves individually and freely, this means reactivating the generally valid constitutions according to their spirit and thereby revitalizing the form of statehood that has factually been left degenerated. Depending on cultural and societal developments, changes and additions following from the societal discourses are to be decided and approved provisionally (regular revision).


In this process, the cultural-historical and legal achievements of human rights and the so-called 'free-democratic basic order' (fdbo) are to be understood as pre-state noumenal normativity and based on this in correlation with the universal legality of thought and reason. From this - to the extent necessary and reasonable - the legitimizing justification for statehood can be derived as limited, entrusted substitute action from individually connected self-governing. - The spirit-derived substance of individual consciousness determines the form of being and its free, appropriate implementation, especially as governing.


The noospherically reconnected and noosystemically organized society-state according to a free human world strives to organize the maximum necessity of its existence for an introductory phase and then it reduces itself to a minimum or dissolves itself in the measure of fulfilling the Categorical Imperative. This should also apply to the political spheres of power in the whole free, connected societies’ world and ultimately to the humane civilization of a global society.

III. From A-Posteriori to A-Priori

While the consultations continue in order to create a sustainable, humane normativity in which all individual world cultures, including historical ones, recognize themselves as represented, the following realization prevails among most participants: Why did we have to go through all these terrible and humanly unworthy experiences in order to be able to perceive and understand the other one as a true human being?! How could we become so far removed from Self and our multiple genius capacities?! Today we are wiser... and today, the now is timeless when spirit is brought to life and life is spiritualized... "and anyone can do that if wanted!" (Kierkegaard: „The Eternal Power of Self“)


Most of the participants in this type of 'Noo World Order Council' provide mentally comprehensive forgiveness and achieve a stage of real transformation: In the especially noumenal normativity of the above draft charter, on the one hand, the historicity of humanity was understood, on the other hand, at the same time, a humane and sustainable civility is being established. The human self is the supreme authority, first and foremost bound by universal law and legitimation. The purely quantitative legitimation of egocentric statehood is irreversibly overcome by the qualitative legitimation through valid reason and the universal laws of thought, which equilibrates anthropology with cosmology - of course not as theology, but as evolutionary, human teleology.


Not the personal ego or the state superego, but the individual transpersonal Self becomes the supreme determining, at the same time communicative and participatory, shaping power of the public space in order to moderate societal will and coordinate its implementation: for a free and peaceful, further developing humane civility and future of an adequte civilization.

© J Michael Heynen, Baden-Baden, 22.11.2023

Nomoi Institute | Noumenal Cultures Council

NooPolitan [ NooPolis ] - Definition Function Reflection

NooPolitan [NooPolis] describes an individual-human and societal, cosmopolitan and post-national, noumenal and conceptual framework focusing on crisis and future transitional | transformational

NooCene Humanities Development by NooSphere Reconnection and

NooSystemic Governance | Regime Creation:

DEFINITION

'NooPolitan' - as a first approach - can be defined as a society or inter- | societal unit being based on

• the human Self guided individuality and transpersonality

• the reconnection with the noosphere and the syndication of all spheres incl. bio- and geosphere

• the integration and the equilibration of all disponible spheres under noospheric guidance for

• the development of a noosystem (spheres syndication | equilibration) for the metaphysical legitimation of governance | governing and any kind of societal interaction

• reason and universal law of thougts (means esp.: non-ideological | non-religious | secular) deducted foundation of noosystemic governance and inter- | societal as well as state’s constitutional functions

• the transformational generation of humane adequate leadership and regimes of representation founding and constituting metapolitical organizations, institutions for heterarchical metagovernance with equivalent sovereignty

• a meta-constitutional order of normativity for a metagovernance policy regime as a supreme system with the highest level of codified aegis and multidimensional determination

• structures, forms, types of political meta-power creation by self-referencing generation, self-ruling, and self-parameterization of determining principles, objectives, and social conditions

• metapolicy regimes, claiming to ultimate authority and comprehensive legitimacy with the corresponding accountability for metagoverning / metapolitical governing

• opening up to a humane future by managing the noosystemic transition from the anthropocene to the Noocene ...

FUNCTION

• NooSystemic fusion of the eligible, interdependent, and subsidiary governance policies of networked entities as individual, autonomous societal organizations, institutions, states, etc.

• transpersonal concertation and transsystemic synthesis of constitutional rationales and noumenal mindsets for generating metapolitical concordance and normativity

• transcendent universalization and unification of guiding principles, constitutional norms, and social contract standards in accordance with the laws of thought / principles of cognition noospherically deducted

• heterarchical policy dialogue, mediation, and coordination of the strategic, determinative interagency consortia's and network-systems’ relationships

• transformative synthetization of the decisive micro-polities, political / social systems, regulatory frameworks, hybrid legal and juridical orders ...

REFLECTION

NooPolitan and NooSystem development - indications for future governing - . . .

• provides and contributes a substantial framework to the world formula of future governing as self-governing and global governance as metagovernance for manifesting a post-Westphalian co-creative culture and [political] order of humanity's coexistential development and interconnectivity enhancement

• frames and structures the cognitive metaphysics, the metamorphosing sublimity, the substantial power legitimization, and the concordance processing of the dynamic equilibrium between universal spirit / mind and real world self-governing, based on the transpersonal individuality of the human and societal self, its meta-codification and manifestation

• claims the self-referential supremacy of normativity and normative primacy of metaconstitutionalism, creates ethical /social competence and procedural guidelines for micro-political self-governing and the codes of conduct for the coordination management of collaborative policy network relationships

• introduces and obtains a cosmopolitan metaconstitutionalism for the transitional and transformative innovation of evolutionary self-/ governing as inclusive coordinating policy guidance and management of complexity, multiplicity, and diversity, dynamically facilitating and ensuring the interior / exterior connectivity with meta-political definition, identification, and manifestation processes

• incorporates the regulatory triptych of polity generation: constitution-building, generating the substantial content of prescriptive constitutional norms, and institutional architecture structuring beyond the traditional matrix of ego-, states-centrism, nations, and state-based international system

• restrains and replaces the outgrown states-/ government-centric, paternalistic authority / sovereignty as well as the egocentrically projecting personalism of masses by transforming the constitutional state as currently exclusive or predominant authority in decline and central paradigm / form of supranational systems and global order, facing anarchic disruption and erosion

• systematizes the reason of institutional order as an expression of the social contract and societal will in accordance to / concordance with the common, synthesized, and universalized principles, guiding values and paradigms forming a kind of "eternity guarantee": legitimacy, accountability, transparency, integrity, consensual authority acknowledgement of cognitional enhancement and transcending wisdom for humane self-governing and coordinating meta-governing

• substantiates and justifies the de-personalization and self-referential legitimization for its own reason and authority of meta-normativity by generating the determination processing of meta-power and by operating as legislative meta-order and executive metagovernor, as entire meta-"codificator" of the substantial vision, the will, and the interests of actors also in accordance to the structural methods and form of metagovernance

• syndicates the paradigms and principles of multiple micro-policy generation primarily as cognitive-creative and meta-connective coherence processing, as higher frequent, normative, hybrid facilitation by synoptically transcending values, norms, rules, ethics etc. including cultural particulars and also humans' adequate social, societal, and emotional demands [non-ideological, non-religious]

• enables polycentric governance codification and metapolitical agenda-setting in dynamic procedures of concertation, unification of diverse, multiple, interdependent, and mutual complimentary, a/symmetric networks of micropolities in a heterarchical and dialogic approach by ultimately prevailing transpersonal and transsystemic authority / sovereignty and by constraining / rejecting egocentricity and inadequate micropolitical supremacy

• creates the multistakeholders' engagement / settings and manages the polycentric coordination and syndication of processes which are open to anyone and/or any interdependent entity coming in and fully participating the discourses, referring to an individual, group, or organization that has a direct or indirect interest of societal relevance: these may be businesses, civil society, governments, states, interstate / intergovernmental institutions, and non-governmental organizations

• enhances real democracy by increasing proactive, co-creative, and effective participation of those autonomous individual and societal subjects being most impacted by decisions, being directly engaged in working with and among people, and/or being strategically involved in interdependent network relations with relevant interests and goals [any position of formalized power doesn't matter]

• closes the lack of adequate consideration and political institutionalization of human factors, values, and humanities, caused by a largely non-standardized globalization and the methods, procedures, and bureaucratizing techniques of global governance, which in fact neglected any maxim / paradigm of ruling the supremacy of human transpersonal individuality, humane identity, and social justice

• creates the equivalent public sphere for exterior policy implementation of the interior determination / inner guidance of transpersonal individuals and adequate societal / transsocietal self-governing, particularly its ruling competence for constructive future planning and the identifying foundation of metagoverning multiple networks and multilateral relationships

• provides the networked societies' accountable, multilevel self-governing polity/policy generation achieving the multiplicity of collective and asymmetric dynamics and challenges of governability by mediating, building, steering, and heterarchically processing the intersection of three types of determinative relationships and discourse dynamics: authoritative, strategically competitive, or dialogic

• associates and synthesizes individual and transpersonal, societal, and transsocietal autonomous value spheres of dignity, practices, experiences, know-how, needs, objectives, motivations, morals, rationals, mindsets, worldviews, structures, characteristics, and the dynamic actualization processes of changing paradigms, based on the human progressing self-/ consciousness especially about societal, political-organizational development, the elevating emotional and cognitive-spiritual intelligence, and human self-empowerment by further transcendence and connectivity enhancement

• enhances the policy generating, ruling, and reigning competence and legitimization processes by reinventing forms of institutionalizing heterarchical power organization, based on the integral, inclusive, and convergent coordination and syndication of multiple realms, levels, lines, scales, and relationships of societal and transitional governmental stakeholders' systemic networks

• dissolves the "agency dilemma" of principal-agent problems by determining coordinational leadership skills: acting as a principal the metagovernor is highly qualified in providing a neutral, self-referential, self-reflecting, and transpersonal authority, cognitive independence, social sensitivity, interactive dynamic and sovereignty, proactively collaborating and balancing, priotizing, and inspirational visionary stimulation capacity by navigating and facilitating heterarchical collaboration, consensual and transformational decision-leading concertation for coherent and efficient syndication, manifestation, and implementation …

© J Michael Heynen | Nomoi Institute

Please also 

EQUILIBRATION: CENTRAL MODALITY OF CONCORDANT CRISIS RESOLUTION AND TRANSFORMATION

 

Quantum Leap into a Humane Future: Reconnecting with

the Noosphere and entering the Noocene




Conceptual reflection by J Michael Heynen

I Anthropocene – Crisis as a Transition to the Noocene

The present, the basis of man's future, is classified as the Anthropocene of human development: Man dominates the geosphere and biosphere of planet earth to a large extent. At the same time, this type of spatio-temporal classification reveals the associated structural crisis or meta-crisis: A life of free will and consciousness of the individual self has been displaced by technical-material domination and nihilistic overexpansion of physical life sphere. This pure system immanence, which is also maximally ego-referenced, blocks the opening of people to a humane-creative future development and causes a crisis constellation of historically unique, and at the same time civilizational extent. The central cause: the disconnection of the emptying sphere of life from the noosphere as the (meta) level that creates mind, reason, and legitimacy. The question therefore arises all the more: Will the Anthropocene become a constructive and urgent door opener for further human evolution, the transition to the Noocene?

II The Noosphere – central Sphere of new Beginnings

The noosphere is defined and described as a sphere shaped by human mental performance, consciousness and reason. In this space of spiritual interaction, the world soul is reflected - individually as well as societally integrated. In this, especially after the mastery of the bio-/geosphere has decreased significantly and human development has been retarded, a new development step of mankind, the "hour of birth" of a new kind of life is founded: Through the spiritualization of the materialized world and out of the connection with the sphere of the spiritual and reason the biosphere becomes reshaped and changed evolutionarily: the Noocene - mastery of life out of metaphysics!

III Equilibration – „Zeitenwende“ instead of „Endzeit“

The development of humans in the Anthropocene thus reveals the associated structural crisis as a limitation of their further civilizational development, insofar as and since the bio-/geosphere is unilaterally ruled out of itself. This crisis-ridden turning point will become the end of time if it is not consistently understood as a „Zeitenwende“. Because only the co-creative, evolutionary free capacity of man will lead him into his self-determined future. This leadership requires deducing and justifying one's „nous/noos“ guided action energy from the noosphere: Human legitimacy and goal of sustainable, adequate interaction exclusively creates noospheric connectivity, especially first as a guideline of the process of change towards full and real governance of the biosphere.

The further development achievement of the human being lies in the complementary re-/ connection of the spheres and their mutually active entanglement: in the equilibration as a dynamic process of spiritualizing the material as well as in the materialization of the spirit, in order to bring spiritual things to life above all. This equilibrium, understood in this way, ensures a constantly balancing metamorphosis reasoning and forming life anew; the upcoming process of change is thus a solution to the crisis and development for the future at the same time.

IV Free Individual and Concordance

The being – the existence and its quality – is created and shaped from consciousness, the conditioned life form is determined by spirit. Transformation and facilitation of this development are the necessary basis of reason-led change processes from the individual self. Because only the individual - emancipating and transpersonalizing - is predestined to activate the "The Eternal Power of Self" (Kierkegaard) and to control the sphere of life innovatively and creatively from the reconnection with the noosphere and to specify it selectively. The reflective consciousness, individually generated, is a continuous carrier of creative meaning and will-formation also as societal development out of an initially noospherically re-/connected existence and intelligence.

In this way, from the inside out, from top to bottom, the individual human experiences himself as a co-creative part of cosmic intelligence and energy, at the same time as an autonomous, intelligible resonator of the creation process. Because the origin of the universe is not matter, but spirit (Bergson / de Chardin). In this fundamental synchronicity and congruence with the All-One, cosmic laws of thought and reason become the vertically derived driving force, captured in the reflection of human consciousness, to materialize spirit, to spiritualize life. This equilibration orders the conditions of existence from the metaphysical normativity of mind; the self as the center of man unfolds the corresponding, adequately resonant intelligence and aligning instance of universal laws and creative processes. In this way, the dynamizing equilibrium harmonizes opposites, transforms crises and conflicts and forces processes that create meaning, justice, and peace as centripetal potentials of progressively higher human development: in cosmic-legal congruence and in individual as societal concordance.

V Transpersonal Aristocracy: Excellence through Principal Leadership

The introduction and stipulation of a vertically guided/aligned equilibrium offers methods of clarifying knowledge, the structural reasons and approaches to solving the crisis as a necessary phase of the transition to the renewal of civilizational life ruling and its future-oriented design. At the beginning of the transition, the individually generated implementation of the method and orientation of the equilibration will still depend heavily on robust, principally leadership elites who act proactively and inspirationally to evoke, coordinate, and facilitate the necessary change / transition processes.

Depending on the individual ability to be free out of the self, synergetic and adequate capacities will be available harmoniously to synergize societal developments in a coordinated and integrative manner. Art and culture, as well as intelligent state leadership shaped by this, assume central functions in order to correlate societal challenges with the civilizational necessities and dynamically to develop them further. The meaning and legitimacy of the foundation of freedom and order are derived from the noosphere and consolidated as implemented in dialogical processes of equilibration. The dematerialized, creative decision-making and interaction processes based on critical reflection and reason are concentrated on the expansion of respective qualitative spaces of freedom and inter-/ societal syndication processes in accordance with transpersonal excellence.

This also applies in particular to the necessary determinants of adequately qualified leadership elites to manage and solve the transition as an opening and consolidation of the transformation. In doing so, monarchical principles of leadership must also be taken into account in particular – analogous to the conductor of an orchestra – admittedly not restorative and beyond historical degeneration from feudalism and “by the grace of God”, on the contrary: the crisis-solving and sustainable renewal of the civilizational sphere of life, deduced noospherically, is based on the historicity of political awareness and the corresponding cognitive processes, but pursues humane ways and goals of societal development with the highest priority. Not material-physical conditions and/or religious projections, but immaterial-metaphysical determinants inspire and secure human evolution. Consequently, the high potential of a spirit- and reason-led, transpersonal aristocracy (i. e. the rule of the best) must be set in order to continuously guarantee the necessary responsibility and quality assurance of social representation and human-centered governance (coordination and moderation services in decision-making, facilitation of decision-making processes).

Understood in this way, the current development of the crisis will lead to its mastery and will expose the Archimedean point of a kind of Copernican turn: the humanity of individual consciousness and civility of leading societal cultures characterize the interpersonal and intersocietal interaction and processual entanglement. Analogously to a control circuit, the processes of equilibrium ennoble clarification, solution and qualitative growth in human development. Based on the awareness and self-honesty of the individual as well as appropriate transparency of (inter-) systemic functions, the Anthropocene is understood and used as a door opener for a human civilizational foundation for a humane future. Leadership based on spirit and reason replaces outdated and completely overwhelmed personalized representative systems of societal governance. The current Anthropocene developments reveal the risks of historical continuity, at the same time the potentials of creative humane progress and the power of excellent development. The crisis in transition is a necessary consequence, at the same time a prerequisite for an individual and systemic metamorphosis with the concrete goal of a noumenal world order as a priority step in a finally beginning, sustainable present of a human civilization, the Noocene: Mastery of life out of spirit!

© J Michael Heynen | Nomoi Institute

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CRISIS - TRANSITION - NEW ORDER

 

Conceptional Reflexion

I

After a long development, in the last fifty years mankind has reached a state in which it has essentially taken over the factual control over its home planet, the earth: The quantity and quality of human action and interaction are central causes of planetary life and survival. Man - never "lord of creation", now its most responsible part - became founder of his "own" age, the Anthropocene.

Human images and cultures were formed, the wheel and the printing press etc. were invented, ideas and religions, visions and utopias were created, often universally projected and just as often rejected. Man has born and destroyed, learned and unlearned, created and forfeited; he is the founder, bearer and potential destroyer of civilization, but in any case the leading shaper of his own and societal worlds, limited only by the immanence of freedom.

With entring into the Anthropocene presence – at the same time the “source code” of a future – mankind has left the late pubescent pilot phase of its existence and consciousness. So now it is up to man’s Self to ensure a future of creation and civilization on this planet with comprehensive responsibility. At the same time, this is the hour of birth of the finally comprehensively co-creative human being: It’s future existence is irrevocably directly and unprotectedly dependent on the human being’s Self and his civility development to realize and to accept the responsibility for the space and time of creation as such of free will.

II

And now having entered the “golden age” of free will and unhindered factual power – partly still limited by the alleged loss of paradise – mankind wakes up in regress and a fundamental crisis. The old world, especially being ruled by having, is increasingly vaporizing, and attempts to preserve mostly end in violence, usurpation and hysteria of loss. Fears of existence absorb crises-turning freedom potentials, a "last generation" is proclaimed, the fallibility of man is seemingly „solved“ in transhumanistic doctrines of salvation to prevent the projected Armageddon. Even a martial rhetoric of so-called "Zeitenwende" cannot create any saving horizons - especially since it is justified with higher military budgets only.

It is nonetheless true: We have entered a „Wendezeit“, a time of decision! And this decision is to be made out of "will and imagination" about the human future. Because the present decline is only the final phase of previous development, characterized by a one-sided concentration on the outside, the materiality of human existence, dominated by egomaniacal projections in the economization and mechanization of life and the exclusive establishment in the "substructure" („Unterbau“) of human potential.

Despite the greatest achievements, especially in the last 200 years, people will probably only find their way out of this dead end of purely existential coping if they succeed in identifying the fundamental transformation potential of the crisis and initiating change processes. The central challenge will lie in the decision to “unlock” the humane once and for all. This achievement describes the development of a holistic equilibrium, in short: "To spiritualize life, to live spirit!" (according to Marc Jongen). Spirit without life remains theory and abstraction, but life without spirit freezes in nihilism and impoverishment. And precisely the latter describes the principle background dimension of today's crisis scenarios as a consequence of prolonged self-contempt and accepted immaturity. - Therefore, the decision for the universal capacity of the human being himself is now pending, in an equilibrium understood in this way, to unfold the endless creative power from the human for his future.

III

If a person decides in favor of a sustainable equilibrium, this can only happen without fear, prejudice and attachment, all the more in acceptance of the crisis as a result of self-incapacitation. Above all, in inner peace and contemplation, people become aware that the future is the least a linear extrapolation, especially facing the presence. The “breathing in” person realizes and understands his alienation through the diffusion of having and the purely external, he opens himself inwards, thus to the transition.

Transition here describes the hybridity of what is to be done in the future - still living in the a posteriori and yet recognizing the a priori - to dimensionally expand and supplement the phenomenality of being through the noumenality of consciousness, i.e. to start building the equilibrium - put differently: to control the conditioning of being consistently from the determination of consciousness. This process begins individually and increases in the systemic, in the societal.

No longer the empirical "objectivity" of highly subjective-egocentric existentiality, but the timeless, individual achievement of spiritually deducted objectification leads to the external societal correlation. No longer the normativity of the outside world through egomaniacal projection surfaces of theological-ideological attempts at salvation, but rather the normativity of individually intellectually deduced reason is the determining basis of societally correlating persuasion processes and coordinating implementation (governing).

So the equilibrium to be created is not too far away when people understand laboratory tests and pilot phases of great achievements as the basis of the innovative-creative change: We have life, but only spirit / mind creates the meaning of life. Then the „Wendezeit“ can become a „Zeitenwende“, i.e. to recognize, to accept the humane responsibility for the anthropocene age, to shape it proactively and to form a humane future from the determinants of mind.

IV

When the human being has decided to start his metamorphosis and to neutralize prejudices, attachments, fears, the transition to the universal capacities of humane processes of future development opens: By and for thinking and feeling people, as a loving and authentic person from the "cogito ergo sum". The future will then no longer be a reward, but the result, the free consequence of the primacy of real human dignity, the supremacy of humane and humanistic reorganization.

Greco-Roman antiquity – above all as a great Greco-Buddhist reception – and the Renaissance as well as the Enlightenment will offer a timeless, cognition-leading sense of meaning, to reorder the consciousness and being of future-oriented humans. It is now up to the human being to develop the required excellence in time and thus to ensure the continuum of equilibrium. This human achievement and capacity – especially humane civility – is the necessary foundation and basis also to guarantee his survival and adequate life.

In the Anthropocene, man can thus rise to become the actual co-creator: the continuum of the human equilibrium - to live spirit, to spiritualize life - is the analogy to the cosmic (law) constant. Therefore, the transition of human development means progressing from the horizontal to the vertical priority of its design and life processes: the vertically guided equilibrium as a paradigmatic will-reasoning axis of horizontal diversity of life and free variation, at the same time creating the necessary noumenality and guaranteeing human civilization ("vertical equilibration").

V

The source code of vertical pillaring this kind of equilibrium lies in the inner guidance of man's self. And from this arises the necessary determination as the basis of necessity and future-creating legitimacy. The determining vertical of cosmic and rational thought laws creates the regulating and resolving normativity of the order in the external conditioning of being and having. The inner world, the consciousness, draws knowledge from the (individual) absolute, the outer world correlates and coordinates the implementation in the space of free will. And where the axis of transcendence intersects with reality, this crosspoint, this center describes the perception and development of aesthetics and culture; here the sublimity and essential elevation of individual self-perception as well as societal narratives are conceived and generated, at the same time existentially connected.

In particular, future governing can also succeed in a non-violent manner if people allow themselves time and space for transition development, to consistently liberate themselves from within and to emancipate themselves from the primacy of the outside world. The resulting reordering of the societal world will not only continuously secure the future of human civilization, but also lead the humane - in accordance with its original dignity - into the pending, decisive development.

It is not the traditional individual of egocentricity and personal power interests that is the bearer of this power (of the spirit), but all the more the individual who has chosen himself. Only the Self - from the power of the only absolute - creates autonomy, sovereignty and principal legitimacy. The Self directs qualities and pressing traits and interests of the ego towards balancing reason from the supremacy of the spirit. This power constituted in this way - based on the highest humane self-determination and empowerment - no longer even requires quantitative majorities and quotas. The authority of the spirit / mind, i.e. the will deducted from it and being adequately communicated, negotiates transparently and convinces in a way that creates meaning and truth. The existential guarantee of a humane future is based on the generation of reasonable approximation of truth. Consequently the inner guidance facilitates, processes, incorporates the rule of the best, in order to adequately synchronize the space of free will with the universal and human laws of creation and continuously to develop it further. The humanoid person becomes a human being, his self a co-creative “generator” and innovator of the civility of his equilibral societal worlds.

The equilibrium contains the potential of the synthesis of noumenon and phenomenon, of transcendence and immanence, of metaphysics and physics and thus the premises for successfully mastering crises, transition and future processes. The supremacy of the mind for the intelligent application of reason-guided thought laws grants the (too) long underestimated power of the mind as a universal normative source for the process of finding truth and rightness. The bearer of this development is the independent, self-determined, de-personalizing individual. This constitutes fundamental, Self based civility, leadership and legitimacy of systemic reordering, a new order of sustainable, humane, societal worlds.

© J Michael Heynen | Nomoi Institute

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