Democratic Foreign Policy - and „Foreign Policy Democracy“?

 

An Essay on the Necessity of Western Foreign Policy Transformation

by J Michael Heynen

This planet is part of the universe and therefore a space of free will. Cultural historicity and territorial classification have created conditions in the tension between anarchy and hierarchy under which at least a third of people live in autocracies/dictatorships. The international system is therefore still characterized by anarchy (also hierarchical) and the successful model of a 'free-democratic basic order' is not a normative imperative of a world order.

Democratic foreign policy involves the formation of societal, domestic political (representative) will in order to interact accordingly within the external framework of diplomacy (bilateral and multilateral). The external sovereignty is therefore based on the internal or on the respective legitimation process. This recent development towards democratic foreign policy has led to significantly higher levels of non-violent conflict ruling capacity, transformative cooperation and welfare. The space for human creativity and peaceful lifestyles to develop has also expanded significantly (e.g. EU).

Of course, it should be self-critically stated that the so-called “Western model” is also exposed to the risk of decline and backsliding in attitudes, including long-term strategies of absolutist foreign policies and dominant hierarchies / hegemonies that also provoke risks of war due to the substantial decoupling of free democratic legitimation processes. Foreign policy then degenerates into purely formal, administrative “sovereignty”. In short: a lack of internal legitimacy leads to an external rejection of pluralism, transparency and integrity as well as trusting cooperation. Life-threatening interactions up to and including war form the remaining spectrum of foreign policy action, framed in geopolitical competitive interests as well as egomaniacal enemy images and messianistic power projections. Diplomacy is then marginalized, foreign policy is completely cannibalized by security policy (“defense policy”) - instead of de-escalation and conflict transformation: “inflation” of the warlike!

This development is man-made, but does not correspond to human capacity at all. In particular, technological progress – including military overkill capacity and AI – leads to the civilizational dimension of respective foreign policy behavior. History can, but does not have to, repeat itself, because it depends on the individual human Self. At least the civilizational normativity of Western societies and policy designs holds the essential potential of foreign policies relevant to globally relevant clearance if they transform the imperative of their determination:

The success and future potential of democratically constituted societies - when the state is organized with integrity - is fundamentally undeniable. Traditionally, this - the functions of democracy - is related to the respective domestic politics - also because of the necessary government-political legitimacy. However, it is conceivable - and can also be achieved in terms of system logic - to reflect domestic democracy in a foreign affairs as a foreign policy democracy: as an analog international process of decision-making, legitimation and action. Of course, the possibility of “exporting” domestic democracy must be ruled out in principal. Because democracy arises from the internally generated freedom of individual human(s) and their societies and is therefore always hostile to mission and fundamentally immune to even psychologically mediated violence and so-called „world saving“. The countless human and international rights violations worldwide are intolerable, yet foreign human rights policy is largely unsuccessful and must be limited to humanitarian intervention under strict conditions.

As a result of liberal movements of the 18th and 20th centuries. In the 19th century, foreign policy democracies were first established, including the integration of federal systems: the USA, the German Reich, the EU, etc. The League of Nations and the UN can also be seen as the first supra-regional and global attempt to collectively coordinate foreign policies according to the principles of the Wilson Doctrine. Independent of institutional international procedures, successful foreign policy democracy strategies such as the détente policy from the beginning of the 1970s can also be classified. Antagonistic system competition between a seemingly intransigent conflict figure was resolved in a cooperative, dialogical and creative manner in such a way that societies that were oppressed at the time were able to initiate their self-determined and therefore emancipation process. In trust-building cooperation regimes, undemocratic power states and despotism were taken beyond their narrow limits and dissolved at their core.

The pessism of Tocqueville – “democracy cannot survive in anarchic systems“ – therefore was unfounded. Because freedom as the basic paradigm of civility and “eternal peace” is convincing and developing, while lack of freedom, on the other hand, is doomed to death and can only survive based on violence. Nevertheless - Tocqeuille taken in another way - the temptation is great, especially for Western states and their foreign policies, to get involved in the anarchic game, perhaps based on fear and enemy images, and then ultimately to allow themselves to be driven against its democratic essentiality in domestic politics. Extremism, nationalism, armament spirals, contempt for humanity and destruction of resources on an unforeseeable scale are the consequences. Societal autonomy and state sovereignty are paralyzed despite the best defense capability. - A democratic foreign policy with the aim of developing democracy in foreign policy is therefore probably the only sustainable civilizational solution - in essence there are i. a. the following determinants:

1. Exemplary guarantee of domestic political implementation of a free-democratic basic order and further development of cultures of freedom as well as human rights and international law and its application without double standards

2. Non-judgemental and value-neutral communication with every societal and governmental subject in the international arena capable of dialogue with the aim of establishing substantial cooperation, or vice versa: non-communication and peaceful coexistence

3. Fundamental respect of different, even deviating, development paths and speeds of 'other' / alternative societies, cultural identities and domestic political systems in order to strengthen self-responsibility and innovative, self-developed solutions

4. Neutrality and non-intervention in the case of symmetrical and asymmetrical regional and/or domestic political and societal conflicts; a request for assistance can only be responded to at the global (UN) level, based on a clear, robust mandate

5. Strict avoidance of double standards to strengthen transparency and integrity, use of cooperatively integrated intelligence capacity to establish neutral verification regimes

6. In particular, civil society relationship levels are for enlightenment-oriented, emancipatory dialogue processes such as rule of law dialogues, cooperation for the independent establishment of fdbo, etc. (without success parameterization, corruption or reward strategies from traditional or new “hidden agendas”)

7. Relationship managament without egomaniacal projection, chosenness mechanisms of self-righteousness, and mentally misguided superiority or supremacy, but rather friendly recognition of pluralistic performance and learning processes, bi-/ multilateral facilitation towards respective self-leadership in inter-/social projects and networks, etc.

8. Establishment of cooperation platforms in the areas of art and culture, technology and science, etc. as specific organizational forms of human-culturally open interconnection processes in the sense of classic as well as innovative, noumenal diplomacy

9. Foreign policy primacy is the “categorical imperative” (Kant) as the development maxim of international relations policy: the international system creates the orchestration process of foreign policy democratization as well as the structural basis

10. Rule-based generation of a real (noo) world order of free subjects and their participatory-synthetic relationships through inter-human / inter-societal, heterarchic networks / clusters as an equal driving force (to states) of international foreign policy / diplomacy transformation.





[ A further systematizing concept of “foreign policy democracy” and/or „Internationalization of Democracy“ is being prepared by the IRCInternational Regimes Council in collaboration with the NOMOIInstitute ]

© J Michael Heynen I R C

NOUMENAL DIPLOMACY

 

by J Michael Heynen

Introduction

‚Noumenal Diplomacy‘ is an innovative human- | society-centric, emanational, cosmopolitan, post-national, conceptual framework, developing noumenally overarching 'nomoi' by facilitating the normative competition and hierarchic power of norm validities and by determining the integratively coordinating vertical, meta-codificational primacy processes: for targeting and co-creating the potentials of 'coincidentia oppositorum' and universal transformation through cognitive-normative external and international relations policy: Noumenal Diplomacy.

The ‚Noumenon‘ of human | humanistic capacity is the constitutional basis of the ‚Noumenal Diplomacy‘ concept for innovative, transitional as well as transformational, heterarchical networks also to overcome the classical | traditional scheme of the international system’s fall-back in anarchy, caused by at least absolutistic modes of governing and its present, real dangers of escalating violence, wars, and civilisatoric decline. Therefore ‚Noumenal Diplomacy‘ integrates even so called „intransic conflicts“ as decisive change indications | potentials and challenges for constructive transitional development and transformational solutions of qualifying growth as well as mature use of resources.

Function - Definition - Reflexion

D E F I N I T I O N

• In addition to the classical functions | instruments of diplomacy, 'Noumenal Diplomacy' reinforces esp cognitive-transcendentially guided procedures of perception and internalization, of communication and interaction, of negotiation and verification,

• initiated, constituted, structured, facilitated by metaphysical reasoning, cognitive determination, and intellectual, intercultural discourse, using hierarchical mechanisms or instruments with meta-normative dimensions of correlating values, norms, and principles of interconnected meta-governance systems,

• the activation portal and platform, the organized process and systemic interface of sovereign subjects of free will as intersystemically connected private | public actors | stakeholders, their networks | arenas | alliances,

• in the field of external, international relations policy and governance | governing coordination synergizing external metagoverning processes,

• the interdisciplinary, intersystemic approach for the development, implementation, and management of metapolicy and metagovernance regimes, guided by syndicating interorganizational network-systems between states, markets, civil societies, and their interrelated institutions and organizations,

• a noumenal normativity ruling procedure based on the supremacy of constantly adapted, correlated, and controlled policy legitimation | verification regimes according to the metaleadership | metacode paradigms | systematics.

F U N C T I O N

Procedures being based on

• noumenal normativity metacode generation as an a-priori constitutional | inter-| societal-contractual primary order codification of hierachical determination integratively norming the 'categorical imperative' of human societies-centric, interdisciplinary framework for transitional | transformational cooperation | coordination re-| engineering and regimes building,

• synergizing the respective societies' will and cognition, syndication of ethical, cultural, social, emotional, and soul deducted values, subjective and "objective" norms, the telos and primary values including the real-world correlation matrix,

• inclusion of group | societal standards, social contracts, organizational policy guidelines, normative concepts, legal codes, directives, regulations, and codes of conduct,

• syndication | integration of universal law, norms, principles, maxims of transcendence, metaphysical orders, law of thinking, theoretical frameworks, individual | collective will, and individual | societal determination,

Targeting

• structure, form, type of external policy meta-power creation by self-referencing reason generation, self-ruling, and self-parameterization of determining principles, objectives, individuall willpower,

• syndication of interdependent individual micro-societal entities, founding and constituting a metapolitical organization, institutionalizing hierarchical metagovernance with equivalent sovereignty,

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

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

Implementation by

• identifiying | norming the 'categorical and existential imperative' of an individual human self based, society-centric, interdisciplinary framework for the anthropocenic transitional | transformational Metapolity re- | engineering and regimes building by conducting equivalent MetaLeadership and adequate MetaGovernance,

• providing a reflexive, multi-perspective and/or "bird's-eye" view in external | foreign policy making, institutional, and organizational design regarding the ethical principles | values | norms | codes of conduct,

• developing noumenal paradigms, normativity settings, and syndicating targets, forming partnerships, structures of vertical and horizontal organizational | institutional governmentality,

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

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

• heterarchical policy dialogue, vertical mediation, and coordination of the strategic, determinative interagency consortia's and networks-system's relationships,

• transformative synthetization of the decisive micro-polities, political | societal systems, regulatory frameworks, hybrid legal and juridical orders … ,

• constutional-normative grid of policy determination, the meta-guideline of leadership and the corresponding intersystemic governance, the fusion of the eligible, interdependent, and subsidiary governance policies of connected bodies | entities as individual, autonomous societal organizations, institutions, states, etc.,

• hierarchic, transformative synthetization of the decisive micro-polities, political | social systems and their regulatory frameworks as well as hybrid legal and juridical orders - for metagoverning system(s), for the supervision of coherence designing and transition as transformational processes,

• concentrating and managing the complexity, plurality, and tangled hierarchies of normative processing: coincidence designig power-sharing, negotiations, conflict conciliations and communication, on both the inter- and intra-institutional | organizational levels,

• referencing back the synchronizing coordination of the reciprocal interdependence among operationally autonomous actors, organizations, and the functional systems' hierarchical market and network governance: the systematization of prior relationships between the institutional orders and functional systems including civil societies' orders.

R E F L E C T I O N

Noumenal Diplomacy' is a non-religious | non-ideological, mind-based, emanatory international policy conceptual framework and a kind of essential keystone for paradigmatic transformational ruling | governing in external affairs | international relations by keeping in the supremacy of cognitive-transcendent determination and legitimation.

This concept is about "vertical diplomacy" as an emenative, heterarchically interconnecting, structural interface and interdependent space of discourse and resonantial free will, diverse and multi-mutual completion, and vertically upwards processing development, targeting to reach the sphere of learning and desolution of conflicting opposites and dualism: 'coincidentia oppositorum".

Analysing, strategizing, and examining the utilization of 'Noumenal Diplomacy', a farsighted executive and thinker might realize the principle détente and peace design potentials as well as the counterpoint to the current global re-militarization:

The vertical reflection and communication process merges the guiding paradigms and qualifying potentials of constituting the 'world formula' of future ruling in external | international policy governance and especially disclosing the determination of future leadership in international relations as concentration on | concertation of self-governing - on inter-| regional as global scale.

The concept of Noumenal Diplomacy …

• introduces and obtains a cosmopolitan meta-constitutionalism for the transnational, intersocietal, transitional, and transformative innovation of evolutionary self-| governing as inclusively coordinating free 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,

• follows the logic of a broader post-Westphalian multilateral 'meta-constitutional discourse' concept esp for non-state and state actors to develop and institutionalize an innovative, anthropocenic, organizational, humanly adequate policy order: The hierarchical structure of determination being noumenally based on universal law allows a heterarchical, sovereign governing that is not based on direct and top-down control but a plurality of discourses of decision finding | negotiation processes coordinating | integrating the dynamic of positions | interactions of self-governing, self-organizing, and self-adjusting practices serving the free space of self-empowerment and development,

• frames and structures the cognitive metaphysics, the metamorphosing sublimity, the substantial power legitimization, and the concordance processing of the dynamic vertical equilibrium between determinative universal mind | law and conditional real world self-governing, based on the transpersonal individuality of the single human, group, and societal self, its enforcement of meta-codification and manifestation,

• contains the principles and structural elements as well as the essential keystones for manufacturing and manifesting a post-post-Westphalian co-creative, constitutional policy culture and order of humanity's complimentary, diverse development and interconnectivity enhancement, provides and contributes a substantial framework to the world formula of governing as self-governing and global governance as metagovernance for manifesting an anthropocenic order of humanity's co-| existential advancement in a space of free will,

• co-creates the common ground aiming for the implementation of the vertical equilibrium between metaphysically determined leadership and the conditions of the real world as the primacy of human/e capacity to develop intersocietal governance regimes as sustaining postnational societies' components of a coincident as well as concordant world order,

• claims the self-referential supremacy of noumenal 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.

• guarantees transparency, inclusion, concentric dialogue, reliability, and continuity based on the dynamic processing of perception and internalization, real participation and creative solution, systemic resilience and timely actualization; the trust generating and truth finding avenue of adequately codified ruling mediations creates not only procedural, but substantial justice and its adequate processing. This especially applies to the area of international relations policy governance and above all to internal | external crises | conflicts incl symetric | asymetric formations | transformations,

• substantiates and justifies the de-personalization | transpersonalization and self-referential legitimization of self-based reason and authority of meta-normativity by generating the determination processing of meta-power and by operating as a legislative meta-order to generate executive metagovernors, as entire meta-"codificator" and equilibrator of the substantial visions, the will, and the interests of actors also in accordance to the structural methods and form of metagovernance,

• dissolves the traditional "agency dilemma" of principal-agent problems by determining coordinational, heterarchical leadership skills: acting as a principal the Metagovernor (Meta-Leadership) is highly qualified in providing a neutral, integrious, 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,

• 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,

• 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 reason of state-based international system with the historically prooven tendency of diverse ways of renewing absolustic governing (also religious enemy images, geopolitical, resource competition etc.),

• restrains and replaces the declining factual, post-national normativity of outgrown states-| government-centric, paternalistic authority and formal sovereignty as well as the egocentrically projecting personalism of masses causing an increasing anarchic disruption and systemic erosion also with growing impact on the international system and global "order", facing anarchic disruption, destabilisation, and regional disorder, and civilisatoric decline,

• systematizes the reason of noumenal-institutional order as a direct 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-governance | -governing as the implementation of free will,

• 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,

• 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,

• closes the lack of adequate internalization and systemic 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 this way 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, and …

• generates transpersonally qualifying essences of meta-leaders and transformationally progressive, dynamic policy | metapolity developers with a shaping spirit for the culture and the sustaining significance of her | his public | private organization's functions and targets with fully legitimized governability based on formative and determinative normativity. This process starts with developing a > MetaCode as fundament and common ground for concertation and cohesion, thereby the concept

• guarantees the self implementation of transpersonal | organizational sovereign guidance based on clear normativity without the dependency on | restriction of just formal authority and facilitates a dynamic, resilient ruling system with the highest capable leadership and enforcement quality guaranteed by the supremacy of transcendently determined, integrative MetaCodification safing a sustaining culture of organizational governmentality,

• defines the leadership and governance processing of free minds and souls and facilitates the openly clearing consciousness of an individually guiding self. In order to guarantee the best usage and effectivity of guidance by equivalently resonating, orchestrated individual subjects in order to save the congruent calibration of power legitimation,

• allows the integrative coordination as the best way of highest possible individual self-regulation of every participant including transpersonalized responsibility and the capacities of a real and free good will. These characteristics are the corresponding components of the Noumenal Diplomacy concept's determinative rationality and communicative conviction to be fully developed by being based on a common-ground framework of a MetaCode of the individual self,

• associates and synthesizes individual and transpersonal, societal, and inter- | transsocietal autonomous value spheres of dignity, cultures, practices, experiences, issues, 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 self-connectivity enhancement,

• enhances the policy generating, ruling, and reigning competence and legitimization processes by reinventing forms of institutionalizing heterarchical power organizations, based on the integral, inclusive, and convergent coordination and syndication of multiple realms, levels, lines, scales, and relationships of societal and transitional stakeholders' systemic networks - targeting, developing, and facilitating a 'Noumenal World Order' (https://ir-council.webnode.page/nwo/) .

© J Michael Heynen I R C

https://ir-council.webnode.page/

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

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