The Basic Principles of Life

*One of the habits I have in making my writings public is to minimize naming the source of the materials I use when connecting ideas.  It is not to try and pass it off as original to me but to minimize the bias that tends to emerge when source and content are presented together.  People will often allow their prejudice of the source cloud their judgment on the content solely on its merits.

The term "Revolution" means to "revolve", or to turn around.  So in the context of a "revolutionary idea", it would represent an idea that would figuratively "turn around" your current view of reality.  In this light, I present to you a quote I read recently,

"Nothing in a person's race, gender, nationality, religious persuasion, sexual orientation, or any other aspect of individuality, shall disqualify that person from participating fully and equally in the human experience at the highest level."


If I were to create a new "Declaration of Independence" or "Constitution" for not just this country but the Earth, I think I might have to include the above as one of its main tenets.  I could add at the end "...so long as that participation does not impinge upon the rights or safety of others.", but somehow it seems to take away from the aesthetics of how it was written......and it should probably be implied anyways.

So now we must ask- What (or who) would prevent this type of  seemingly logical solution to persecution, hatred, violence and war from manifesting itself?  If we agree, as a whole (or even a majority), that this would be a path to peace on earth, assuming that is what we all say we want, how do we go about achieving that goal?  I can suggest three 3 concepts that are exclusive to humanity and therefore created by man that could point to some insights.  I say exclusive and man-made because I see absolutely no evidence of these concepts existing in other lifeforms that exist in nature.
1.  Morality
2.  Justice
3.  Ownership

Just about  every form of social convention, custom, political institution, economic system, punishment system, philosophical concept, religious doctrine that there exists , either all or some faction of these concepts, drives its existence and sustains its influence.  We have stitched together this tapestry of interweaving spiritual, philosophical, political and economic concepts and given it the power to govern our collective experience.  Its "the way things are", we say.  Beliefs, which perhaps are false.....Mental constructions, which perhaps are harmful literally producing our outer experiences of the world.  Beliefs which drives Conventions.....Conventions which drive behaviours.....Behaviours which produce our "reality".

No doubt, for humans to change their most basic beliefs and value systems that no longer serve us remains our most difficult challenge.  It took the Catholic Church 300 years to grant Galileo an official pardon for his confirmation of Copernicus' discovery that the earth "revolved" (there's that term again) around the sun.  We are a stubborn bunch.

To illustrate best these concepts in action, lets use examples:
-  The father kicking out his unwed pregnant daughter.
-  The rebuking of a son or daughter for marrying outside his faith or race.
-  The beating or disownment of a son for being gay.
-  A 23 yr old woman strapping a bomb to her body and walking into a crowd in Jerusalem.
-  A nation occupying the land of another for decades, essentially subjugating them, and then taking desperate measures and becoming angry because they became angry.
and the list goes on........

There is a set of Basic Life Principles that seem to lie behind all of existence and humanity could potentially be on the cusp of understanding them at a deeper level.  All of life demonstrates them.  It has been suggested that the human mental constructions of Morality, Justice and Ownership are clouding these Basic Life Principles and preventing their expression.  The expression of which would make all the difference between what we seek to evolve to and what currently is reality today.  What if,

We could elevate the concept of Morality to the Principle of Functionality.
We could elevate the concept of Justice to the Principle of Adaptability.
We could elevate the concept of Ownership to the Principle of Sustainability.

It would of course require that we continue (I believe this process has been going on for awhile) to lift the veil of separation between our choices and its consequences, our behaviours and others.....our bodies and the bodies of others.  For instance, and this may be too esoteric for some, but what if we considered the idea that "Your body is yours, but it is not you."  That the essence of "you" extends beyond the boundaries of our physical bodies, and that this "essence" or "energy field" has no physical place where my energy stops and your "essence" or "energy field" begins.  Essentially its like the air in our house- there are separate rooms but only "one air".  Well thats just Spirit or Soul you're describing, you say.  Yes, perhaps...but I am less concerned about the labels you may give it than the implications this idea has if ever we were to adopt it from a practical point of view.  If that easily visible concept reminds me that what's Functional, Adaptable and Sustainable for human life should be first and foremost in how I choose to live than I can stay congruent with Life's Principles and not potentially harmful mental constructions.  It may just be that I am rehashing the idea of interconnectedness and expressing it in another way but some things are worth repeating, don't you think?