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The Limitations and Possibilities of Cultures
A culture has to serve the
purpose of life-fulfillment or it fosters non-sustainable
end-technology. We have to learn to own our culture rather than be owned
by it! At this leading edge of human interaction the impossible can
happen; a purely rationally functional Saul can turn into a
Paul and overcome his detachment from the requirements of a
sustainable qualitative growth through a consciously loving and healing
cooperation.
We do not have to re-invent the wheel
or reconstruct our potential with our emotions; we are here to discover,
uncover and express our potential using our life. For
that purpose we need accurate indications of our true potential and ways
to transform the threatening breakdowns of our emotional
righteousness into breakthroughs which allow our potential to unfold. Since APS® is not based on generally accepted
denotations
that fit the trend, but rather on the basic
open-ended generative principles, it does justice to the potential of real people.
It can provide such
indications sufficiently on the basis of accurate mapping and application with the
resonance-principle.
The APS-approach
promoted here seeks conditions in which emotions can reveal the
underlying
essence of our lives before the point of no return from
being coerced by necessities and having to learn things the hard way by loosing
substance. Coercion leaves people damned, stuck in a vicious
emotional
cycle. But we must remember
that most people consider it easier to fly to the moon, support a war
of ethnic cleansing, or join in mobbing at the office on a smaller scale,
rather than to create human conditions sustainable for life-fulfillment
for as many as possible. Why is this so? There are answers to be uncovered
intellectuals don't like!
Our culture
should supports us in dealing with
what we perceive of each other, the external reality. We experience ourselves, if we care at all,
from an altogether different point of view than what the humanities
suggest and we obtain little support
from outside for reflection upon this experience. We experience
ourselves in our substantiality in terms of our intentions and
the successes and failures. We experience in attempting to manifest
ourselves and in trying to be cause for an effect, and fulfill our
purpose.
In Japan there are more members
of
religious organization than there are people; religion is a mental
consumer god to be used differently for different occasions.
Similarly in post-modern times where "anything goes" goes,
world-views are dealt with like scenarios: For the sake of
making money one seeks "Flat Earth" societies, and for
comforting ones conscience one goes to church to indulge in ritualized
social gatherings, or as an intellectual put it: "It is amazing how much
effort people make to indulge in religious socializing...".
Whoever participated in it, must admit that such practices dilute the
meaning of another wise meaningful service and prevent its inclusion in
everyday life - for the show must go on uninterrupted by personal meaning...
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