Reflexion by J Michael Heynen
I „State“ of the Art?
The
world could live in an "eternal peace" if the inner peace of
the individual self would be a truly determining factor. Ideas and
noumenal normativity are developed in a highly civilizational manner
and are at least formally valid. Regional phases of peace can be
experienced – a blueprint for the greater whole? What is the
"missing link" between a world order of peace, the principal universality of "eternal peace", and the
resulting foundation for the realization of genuine
peacefulness?
The true "statecraft" of
establishing a regime of universal peace is not discernible, although
the world of states claims responsibility for it. On the contrary:
the order of states tends toward dissolution, toward deepening
divergence and egocentric "absolute power" of a
neo-imperialist nature.
The international system of states
and its capaity for peace essentially describes a systematic state
failure. The internal state functions are reflected in foreign
policy: Legitimacy-free power politics necessitates governing and
administration that is alien to people, and consequently, formally
stabilizing interest-based geopolitics of a classic imperialist
nature. Smart, far-sighted, and genuinely legitimate policies are
rare exceptions; even the ability to resolve conflicts is not
identifiable. Even a merely abstract "good will" is
unthinkable. State power in its current manifestations continues to
increasingly operate in contradiction to the laws of thought, at
least of reason. Statecraft appears irreversibly over. What remains?
- Humanity and their societies in Transition ...
II Metanoia in Societal World
Human
life, above all, is choosing and taking responsibility. What does
that mean, when the physical laws of creation have been fulfilled,
and being and having are understood. The meaning of life is, of
course, not fulfilled in the substructure of existence, but by the
intellectual / spiritual laws of the superstructure. With the arrival
of the Anthropocene, it can finally be considered that humanity can
no longer postpone further development, its centrally essential
emancipation, but to reconnect with the laws of evolution as a whole.
This conversion or transition - to the Noocene - has long since
begun, yet the "Copernican" step into the transformation
that shapes the future has a central entry point: metanoia.
Even
independent of state systems and the world of states, their formal
sovereignties and monopolies: the rethinking, the empowerment of
self-determination, has long been pending and is tt be fulfilled now.
From the individual self and its reconnection, life is to be
spiritualized and spirit to be enlivened. Consciousness determines
being, inner guidance controls the external conditions of existence.
Thought and feeling create the meaning and quality of life, as well
as future development. Perception and sensation, imagination and
fantasy, contemplation and faith/mysticism, sensitization and
sensual-aesthetic self-experience and self-knowledge, as well as
meditation and reflection, cognition and cognitive processes in the
inner space of the human being, secure the foundation for interaction
in the outer spaces, especially as resonance spaces.
In
the resulting freedom and commitment of the self, responsibility is
generated in the societal space. In open perception and creative
communication, as well as in constant equilibration, ideas and will
are synergistically intertwined and enhanced. The "categorical
imperative" must be consistently facilitated in each case;
states and their governments—to the extent still necessary—then
become pure coordinating authorities of the societal will. The entry
point, the necessary individual-societal metanoia, must therefore be
urgently initiated: Crisis conversion is, above all, a kind of reset
to evolutionary development after long periods of blockage.
III Evolution and Emancipation: Homo Genesis
As mentioned above, the physical evolution of Homo sapiens is essentially complete; and with it, the existential orientation of being and philosophy of life as previously defined has been achieved and finalized. Comparable to the Copernican Change—and yet of greater significance—Homo Genesis now stands at the center of further human evolutionary development.
[Quote:] "...This
human, Homo Genesis, is not a superhuman, i.e., a humanoid or
transhuman, but all the more transpersonal, a human being, a cultural
human being. For he emancipates himself from external egocentrism
toward the centrality of his always leading, derived self. Thinking,
reflecting, meditating, contemplating, and feeling capacities
determine his inner leadership and the radially driving force of his
being. This is no longer ego-competitive, but rather the consequence
of inner, unlimited universality and totality, then equilibrated
externally as a social capacity. With this reversal of thrust, open
to infinity, human consciousness connects with the noosphere as the
eternal resonance space of creative individuality and, at the same
time, cosmic-normative universality. After (too) long a
late-pubescent development, human evolution enters its true
determination: to shape and dominate conditioned reality from the
determining noumenality. In the self of Homo Sapiens lie the reasons
and potentials for the activation of the human being, for Homo
Genesis has long been present within him and requires his
long-overdue emancipatory metamorphosis.
Homo Genesis is
not a new human being, but a transforming human being: Being is lived
from consciousness, that is, from the inside out. In this current
transitional development, it is also crucial that not only the
individual understands and experiences himself as Homo Genesis, but
that a consolidating collective consciousness as a cultural human
being is increasingly constituted from this. In the transition, this
process will appear more likely to be based on elites or minorities,
since, in particular, any kind of superego generation of the masses
and their "democratic" quantitative procedures must be
excluded by reason, universal laws of thought, and thus spiritual
legitimacy (overcoming a classic phenomenon of transient ego worlds
and their compensating substitute projections)...."
Source: https://worldpowerself.blogspot.com/2025/03/homo-genesis.html
IV Consciousness and Noumenality
Individual-societal
leadership will experience and engage in essential
introspection/introversion in the first step of metanoia: inner
leadership from consciousness, from within to without, from spirit
into the enlivening of external space. The self first determines
itself and then stimulates/facilitates the conditions of being that
need to be equilibrated. After metanoia, societies will then be
constituted by individual bearers of open, creative spirit in
mutually learning, synergistic, and transformative
discourse.
Accordingly, intra- and inter-societal
conflicts will also be understood as consistent opportunities for
resolution and optimization. The era of divergent resolution of
competing, egocentric power surrogates and the abuse of derived
statehood will then be over and will merely be a historical lesson of
misguided power systems (an absolutized substructure). Above all, the
supreme commandment of societal processes of justice and
truth-finding will finally be given real substance.
V World Order – Transition and Future of Human
In
the process of world history, not only the comprehensive leadership
of the aristocracy was largely replaced, but emancipation and
freedom movements formed the modern state. Based on that, only the
liberal-democratic constitutional state was able to develop a
temporary proximity to these ideals. Here, too, the rule of law, at
least in the Western style, was undermined, and
political-ideological, oligopolistic governments largely utilize the
historical form. The state became an artifact, a paternalistic
projection surface for a soo called free will. The real legitimacy of
governing has evaporated.
As a consequence of this
disconnection between people and representation—after the Peace of
Westphalia, Wilson, the UN, and the achievement of high levels of
normativity in international law—the international system could
only describe short phases of a tendency toward peace. A world order
that refers to the legitimacy of power processes based on the will of
the "free citizen" does not exist. Since 9/11 at the
latest, geopolitical interests have largely become the "dominant
culture" of law, i.e., the right of the supposedly strongest.
Transhumanist-technological-military overkill visualizes the
apocalyptic dramaturgy of the self-finalization of human
civilization. Smart politics and diplomacy of humanistic provening
are largely undermined, solely due to inconsistency in the pursuit of
collective principles and the incompetence of leading government
personnel.
At the same time, parts of public perception
are identifiable as being in a global transition: the currently
generated state of the world and the human world resonate only
marginally. Largely alienated, enslaving systems of "objectivity"
and overregulation no longer solve even urgent problems, to the
extent that they are still recognized. Thus, a recognizable
willingness to face the impending metanoia process is
growing.
Opening this metanoia process, the conversion to
the paradigm shift – prioritizing consciousness and inner
leadership – probably depends exclusively on societally leading
individuals who correspond to the real and necessary elite concept of
true excellence in the sense of future viability. Individuals,
organizations, societies – in this three-step process, change can
succeed, expand virally, and dissolve the blockages of egocentrism
and its comfort zones.
The current individual-societal
human being has the ability to precisely identify and define this
metanoia point and process from the reconnected self. Self-confidence
and responsibility, creativity and imagination are the central
elements of the dynamics of change, at the same time means of crisis
resolution, transition, and transformation. The procedural and
distributive justice, which is primarily based therein as a leading
global principle, as well as the renewed, trust-based capacity for
synergy, are simultaneously the catalysis in inter- and societal
equilibration and the noumenal-normative redefinition of a real human
world order – as a self determined unit in the universal order in
adequance to creation.
© J Michael Heynen, Founding President of Senate of Cultures| Baden-Baden June 9, 2025
