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Means and Orientation in the Mental Space
What are the best means we have available to express ourselves,
the highest qualities humans can access? Plato attributed these qualities in an extraordinary way (rhetoric)
to the idea behind things. In Isaiah 8,6 the Bible points us to the path:
He shall be called: "in purpose wonderful". In John 14,11-12, Jesus, He who is in purpose
wonderful said: "Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father in me;
or else accept the evidence of the deeds themselves. In truth, in very truth I tell
you, he who has faith in me will do what I am doing; and he will do greater things still
because I am going to the Father." Therefore, in all modesty and common sense, APS®
is based on the highest qualities of life which humans can believe and relate to,
its fulfillment, in order to do justice to
the essence and the impact of
individual human beings as Creatures of a Creator in his
Creation! We call this the C3-attitude that contrasts to
the prevail c3-command - communicate -
control idea paradigm.
The basic areas to be considered in accessing the above outlined C3-qualities:
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Rationality based on the
social security of using established ways of
thinking based on generally accepted denotations comes to mind first. We usually
value that aspect of a person's ability first. Because it is reproducible
and we feel free to express it without any shame or hindrance, it is
socially acceptable and thus amasses meaning in itself. It is the way we
call objective, and
we imaging we can master things better together, in tune with the collective support.
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Functionality based on our whole personality comes into play between people after
an opening that creates mutual trust. Functionality expresses itself through
the whole
process of our lives, while rationality manifests itself only through our working
for
objects based on usually other-determined objectives. Human life requires us to work
with objects in relating to creation towards lifefulfillment.
Work is unavoidable, it also creates stress and tension, i.e. a need for
healing
processes!
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Consciousness: We all can experience a space where we are consciously
present and where we are not directly operating out of our work, or out of our physical
and psychic life. Our creativity springs from this source aiming at
qualifying our being to exist. We are wholly responsible
for this space and no excuse or justification in terms of our work or our living
conditions apply. In this space we can also allow darkness, hate and misery. On the other
hand in this space we can lovingly connect to other beings. Healing, grace and a
relationship to God are all possible in this space if we can let them happen and go beyond
the stress of our work and our living conditions.
According to Nietzsche "the source of all evil is
inadequate knowledge". In fact we all have different areas of rationality,
functionality and consciousness as we have different access to a our path, the truth and
our life, as well as different tensions, anger and guilt. The same area can be claimed by one person for
rational work, object management, while another identifies with it and tries to
live in it attempting the corresponding process management. For yet another person
it is amply clear that healing is needed in this very same space since it is saturated
with non-sustainable discrepancies between rationality and
functionality, between power and wisdom... |
