Section Zeta  Lesson Two: Implications For Government - Economics of Need-Meeting  The Grand Game  With individuals reattuning to the divine inner guidance, they will immediately be confronted by certain mistaken assumptions---slivers which have been incorporated into many social structures. The central primary mistake, has been the persistent mass belief that humans need external control. This inaccurate idea has left humans shackled within a world filled with all forms of controls which actually foster just what they seek to prevent---amorality. As the entity Jean Jacques Rousseau once said: "Man is born free, but everywhere is in chains."  The argument for the need for "external control" is reinforced every time someone deviates from acceptable, intelligent conduct and acts in a fashion that is harmful to himself or someone else. It can be the smallest of minorities that will result in the largest amount of control.  Governmental structures exist to provide an organized way to establish agreed upon public policies that reflect the desires and contributions of the people they serve. It is the official way of determining what will become part of the rules of the social game in any particular local, collective consciousness. Governmental structures are like shoes that should fit their people. The shoes must be generic enough to fit everyone, but flexible and adaptive enough to be altered and adorned by willful choice of each human. But instead, many try to force human feet to fit in ill-designed confines. The fact is that any ill-conceived governmental shoes will rub and pinch until their cultural rules match the biological rules in the grand natural game.  Government bureaucracies too often attempt to apply the "rules" in a fashion that fails to exercise an innate knowledge of human nature. The regulation often takes precedence over the people who are subject to it. When this happens, the subsequent conflict results in the domination of the former over the latter, even when it has become abundantly clear that the former is not practical in its application.  Indeed, the spiritual corrective signals will arise when individuals are confronted with each ill-fitting confine, for the physical experience is designed with its own universal, and inescapable, structures and rules. When the innate motions of humanity are understood, far more flexible, liberating, creative and supportive rules for the game will arise. These rules will replace the guesses and assumptions with the self-understandings of universal human needs, and how they relate to human rights which must be protected. They will not be limited to any one locality of government, but will be embraced on a global basis. For they are the biological boundaries of all human spirits. They are the rules for the grand game of purposeful energy exchange.  This will not come about though, until/unless human beings begin to trust and have faith in their own spiritual nature. As this happens, the importance of outside regulation will begin to wane, while many will begin to develop a message that people can and should be responsible for their own environment. Those who fail to take that responsibility, (whether they be individuals, corporations or governments), will risk the disapproval of those more enlightened who do understand and appreciate the importance self-responsibility. This game of energy exchange is played upon several stages, at biological, ideal, and spiritual levels, corresponding to body, mind, and spirit. Each kind of life form has its unique role and inner impetus to play it out upon the physical stage. Some life forms, such as basic elements and plants, are limited to the biological level, where energy exchanges are physical transfers of matter often in response to the willful thoughts and actions of other life forms. Others, including the higher animal forms, enjoy a bit of mental participation, where an ideal realm allows individual thought and mental energy.  There is a suggestion in this paragraph that "plant forms" act "in response to the thoughts and actions of other life forms". Does this give confirmation that plants that are prayed over will respond favorably and produce a better growth rate, or that plants respond both positively or negatively to human intentions and/or emotions, as suggested in the book, "The Secret Life of Plants" by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird?  Each kind of life form offers a unique physical experience in space-time, from which spiritual apportionments of All That Is can choose to consciously "embody". Each such life form has an essential biological role and right to its being within a grand balance. Each has its unique perspective and participation to yield meaningful understanding in the earthly learning ground of creative energy manipulation. But no matter what kind of life form, each will be moved from within to carry out its unique purpose.  We consider ourselves the highest life form on this planet and we certainly are the most technologically accomplished. But there might be some self-deception here if we presume that technological superiority would automatically guarantee superiority in mental, emotional and spiritual areas as well. To do so, might result in a false sense of pride.  Humans enjoy the most complex forms of energy exchange, wherein spiritual energy is received in mind and willfully manipulated. Humans have the utmost conscious freedom to convert and exchange energy on the physical level by designing the most purposeful and rewarding mental conduits to full spiritual expression.  In being granted this superiority, we are also given the responsibility to make the most of it by not only developing our spiritual understanding, but in sharing our insights while in the process of doing such.  Economics of Resource Exchange  To design an optimal governmental structure, the true nature of the physical game must be understood. Although humans enjoy mental free will, every physical creature has innate biological orienters, the inner movers and shakers, which lead it toward purposeful action. These are the spiritual signals of pleasure and pain. The intention is that the pleasure will pull all organisms toward basic survival, reproduction and any higher purposes encoded into the genetics. Or, if there are deficit states, wherein certain balances are disrupted, at minimum, each organism can ensure its own survival by pain reduction. Physical pain reduction should be able to suffice, unless the deficit states become more long-term. Then psychological forms of pain arise, manifesting as fear, anger, sadness, and the defensive responses they bring.  Here is a suggestion that there is a direct relationship between a physical malfunction or "dis-ease" and our emotional state and that when we experience the latter, we are already moving into physical states which could eventually be life-threatening. Medical pain reducers may relieve a particular condition by masking it over, but if the imbalance is not corrected through diet or exercise, or the removal of the appropriate slivers from the belief system, then it will eventually be reflected in our mental and/or emotional state.  These same inner movers and shakers are built into all life forms in varying degrees of complexity. Each organism in the simple acts of freely following its inner urges, becomes its genetic potential, and in doing so, contributes to the interactive environmental whole of nature. The hedonic patterns of all life forms demonstrate the unified cooperative nature of the physical experience---the Creator's intention of a grand, purposeful, cooperative, interactive game. No cultural laws will suffice which violate these natural spiritual motions, for they will prompt fear, anger, and natural safeguard defensive responses.  Those belief systems that are imposed upon a culture from outside sources, can be discerned to be spiritually enhancing or detrimental simply by the feelings they conjure up among a society's members. If control is maintained through fear, then anger will seep into relationships. Where greater free will and creativity are fostered, less outside control is necessary. All such movements interacting with one another define the grand game of energy/resource exchange. The divine dance of all organisms freely moving about meeting their needs is the way of the natural, physical world. The living world turns on its axis empowered by the energy expended as each organism goes forth into the world to meet its needs. The "Creation" is the unique balance of life forms which provide resources to one another so that all needs can be met by each life form. This balance is designed down to the chemical and even atomic level, where atoms move forward and backward in terms of their own inner purposes, as consistently as metal filings are attracted to magnets, and humans are attracted to the pleasure of fulfilled needs.  All of nature exists in a uniform state of balance. The "dance" is carried out on a daily basis, with each part acting in unison for the benefit of the whole. Humans who disrupt the synchronicity, risk a consequence that is designed to correct the straying from an appreciation for universal values. In other words, "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature."  In the grand game of resource exchange, each individual is likened to a buyer and a seller in a marketplace. Each goes forth into the world to fulfill its needs, by "purchasing" or otherwise obtaining the necessary resources. (These are the basic survival needs for food, warmth, safety, etc.) It expends its own energy in doing so, whether it be physical energy, time, or money---some cost is always paid. All expended energy becomes a resource available to others in the grand marketplace. In fact, may the buyer beware, for he himself might become an edible resource to something else in the grand marketplace.  We know there are sharks out there waiting to prey upon the unsuspecting. By keeping our needs simple and our values spiritual, we protect ourselves from the greed mentality that can make us vulnerable to the economically carnivorous.  This is the most basic physical level of the game. But the rules are the same in the realm of human culture---the realm of mind. Ideas are exchanged which build the cultural world. The information-energy within human thought becomes transferred through thought and action into physical events, structures, buildings, and entire governments. Yet it is all a grand game of energy exchanges and conversions, dependent upon each individual freely following the internal urgings and purposeful self-regulation systems. A plant is fulfilled by growing to its full height, an animal by daily survival and seasonal cycles, and a human by actualizing the most of its developmental and expressive potential.  While we give great attention to developing and enhancing our physical and mental potential, presuming that this - in itself - will ultimately fulfill our joy level, we often leave the spiritual part of our nature for outside forces to govern, when it is the establishing of an inner connection with this latter aspect of ourselves that would actualize all that we strive to express.  Universal Human Rights - Basic Self-Determinism  The entire game is based upon the fundamental natural right of unrestricted movement of the organism or entity. No player can hope to understand or succeed in the grand game, if not freely empowered to control one's own destiny. In humans, this right of self determinism is experienced as the basic need for freedom and power. As we know, these are the first priority needs to fulfill, for they are essential to the bodily purpose of self-preservation.  Freedom of thought and movement are not possible without the necessary "equipment" (brain, body, etc.) to exercise such basic need. When power is hoarded by the few at the expense of the many, a society as a whole, suffers. An enlightened society constantly seeks to keep the "freedom and power" in the hands of the many, not just the vested interests. This should be particularly true of an enlightened government.  In humans, this essential freedom and empowerment is the foundational basis upon which all other needs and purposes must be built. Our attempts at social unity based upon external control will merely become chains which enslave us. As we now know, the inner self-regulation for humans is the feeling feedback system which leads humans to broader bands of consciousness and creative internal "control". The trial and error nature of human self-regulation depends upon the mind's free thought and the body's free action necessary to call forth the subsequent spiritual evaluation, to guide mindful corrective adaptations. Thus, if basic freedom and empowerment is stifled, the whole design will be scuttled. Then the spirit remains frustrated, the mind cannot self-develop, the body will fall back upon safeguard defenses which severely limit purposeful experience.  What is essential to putting into practice a mindset that supports a willingness to rely upon "inner" guidance versus "outside" guidance is a belief (faith, if you will), in the innate spiritual nature of humans and the unquestionable importance of maintaining a clear connection between our physical, mental and spiritual natures. Until and unless we can accept this as a valid precept, we will continue to depend on outer sources to control our individual destinies.  Without the basic freedom and empowerment, true connection and cooperative living will always be just out of reach. Competition and power struggles will become the norm, for it is a biological certainty that the group needs will fall if the individual needs are unsatisfied. Just as any human will stop working to eat when hungry or sleep when tired, when the body is unduly restricted, it will stop win-win cooperation, and defensive win-lose competition for basic power and freedom will ensue. Anything less than free movement will relegate humans to inner motivations more likened to animal instinct.  A truly free state of mind must be created from within. If it relies on institutions such as government or economic forces to grant and protect its exercise of free will, it shall come to the eventual realization that these outside influences have other agenda, motivated by the need for power and wealth concentrated into the hands of the fewest possible number of individuals.  The Biological Condition of Justice  Free movement and empowerment are essential, for they are part of the physical design, and part of a divine natural, state of balance. This balance occurs when all organisms are interacting and purposefully exchanging energy within the grand need-meeting marketplace. When inner need-meeting balance is attained, external actions are purposeful and when all purposeful actions dovetail together in the grand marketplace, there is an optimal divine external balance.  We begin with a state of inner balance. This is reflected on the physical level by a lack of "dis-ease". We can (free)will this state by certain mental practices, i.e. meditation, for one. We can truly exercise our (free)will to bring about a state of physical and mental balance, which brings us into line with our spiritual nature and empowers us to bring balance into our created environment. EUREKA!  This divine external balance is the biological condition of justice. Biological justice is the state wherein all organisms are free to move about and empowered to control their own destiny, and that there is sufficient influx of available energy/resources to compensate for the required outflux. Justice allows balances between supply and demand in the marketplace of physical and mental resource exchange.  The greater the demand made upon our need for spiritual growth, the greater the supply of insights to satisfy that need. We have the opportunity to apply that Universal Law that states: "Ask and you shall receive. Seek and It will be given unto you." As this applies individually, so it applies collectively in any marketplace.  This means that humans are not designed to be limited or externally controlled in any way. We should not be prevented from choosing any experience, exchanging any resource, as long as in doing so they do not violate the same rights within others. For if any human need is involved, it will be a necessary experience to meet it, and any need-meeting resource will create such a demand. Instead, social structures should strive to provide as many avenues for self-development and self-expression as possible.  When this principle is applied on an economic level, it encourages the concept of free enterprise. However, the application of spiritual principles also ensures protection from the excessive self-interest of someone else. A well-oiled economic system should provide an opportunity for those who are able to exchange their labors for that which is desired; and it should also provide for those who are unable to exercise a form of labor or creativity, a level of comfort and hope. Indeed, biological justice is the external counterpart of internal natural morality. When just conditions exist, each life form can follow its inner urges and will be guided toward moral actions. There are no implied rights or wrongs in what takes place in the physical need-meeting arena---other than that which creates pain. There is no more or less implied significance in the death of a spider than the death of a human. In time, all forms go back into the earth and enrich its chemical resources, and non-psychic spirits reunite with All That Is.  The statement, "There is no more or less implied significance in the death of a spider than the death of a human." is, by itself, almost unconscionable unless viewed from a broadened perspective. From a narrow view, it seems to imply that the taking of human life (in a painless manner) is as justified as taking the life of a spider. But any taking of life which causes pain to anyone, whether it be to the victim or anyone saddened or deprived in any way by that loss, would have to be regarded as a "wrongful" act. Death finds an excuse and comes about most often by accident or circumstance - and there are few real accidents since it is our prerogative to exercise our free will.  But humans have been given the gift of free will and the most power of all life forms in terms of affecting the divine natural balance. Through the use of culture, we have radically redefined the natural marketplace by adding cultural resources which create a group mindscape, alter the landscape, dominate all other species, and build social mini-markets, all within the grand marketplace of resource exchange.  That which we find around us is a product of the human freedom of an exercised will. Because perspectives vary with individuals, there is an evolving state of intermittent progress perpetually in place. Any state of progress is intrinsically tied to free will. Without this "gift", we would be limited to the total control of an outside force. Many religions suggest that we are and should be allowed to follow the dictates of our own conscience, but they do so under the guise of their own intent to manipulate us.  Biological justice must underlie any successful form of social justice. Instead, through our historical lack of emotional self-understanding, humans have upset the natural biological justice, causing further disturbances that we then must also scramble to control. We have only but to listen to the messages inherent in all pain to live up to the honorable gift.  Once we are practiced to attuning to the natural world around us, we will have no difficulty in acting in such a way that is beneficial to that world and, in turn, to our existence to same.  All forms of psychological pain, fear, anger, sadness, and disgust are based upon long-term deficit states of injustice. When the mind remembers past injustice and anticipates future injustice, the safeguards kick in. Anger, in particular will ensure that the man-made chains will not be tolerated for long. Anger is the force which forces countries to move in more  just directions, often through painful revolution, instead of the more pleasurable evolution. But either way, positive change will eventually result. Until the spiritual message is answered and justice restored, humans will linger in painful experiences and remain shackled in self-made chains and will be painfully dragged to their destiny.  In our present state, we may find our viewed "pleasure" subject to the interruptions of "anger" over such things as an increased price of fuel or some other commodity. In a free society, with a free economy, it could be the motivating factor that results in the creation of an energy source which is less harmful to the planet. This would be a "positive" result. Just as a solar source of energy frees a homeowner from the dependence on his local power company, so we can free ourselves, if only in stages, from those who control all aspects of our existence on this plane. Social Justice These simple biological economic realities of hedonic movement have been overlooked by most forms of government. Needs for freedom and power must be accommodated before cooperative structures can evolve. All social structures can be likened to organisms, for they reflect human nature. Any form must address the body, (the needs of its people), the mind, (its mass knowledge and values), and the spirit, (its unified cooperative interactive whole.) Ensuring the basic human rights to free self-determinism ensures that bodily purposes can be met. Attempting to skip over them, and structure life around the mind, will only bring further inner and outer conflict. But this has been what many governments have done---attempting to enforce cooperation, while inadvertently setting the stage for competition and struggles for basic freedom and power. Until there were two predominant world governmental strategies, which have broken free from those that rule through rigidly controlling religious ideologies. They are generally known as Communism and Capitalism. Both try to make up rules for the game of life by which individuals are forced to play, yet both leave out some aspect of the biological needs and scuttle the self-regulating process.  The basic reason that both are doomed to failure is that each one of them puts a low value on self-expression. While attempting to create the facade that democracy is a highly valued quality in a society, processes are set up behind the scene that ensure that governing will be carried out by the fewest possible, by manipulating the masses to conform with the will of this power-hungry minority. The workplace does not allow or appreciate a democratic philosophy unless it is producing profit. The distribution of information is controlled by corporations which own most of the media. The political system is strongly influenced by the vested interests. The above would appear to apply only to the Capitalist system, but as the Communistic system defaults, it is being replaced by the Capitalistic system which includes the characteristics listed above.  For example, Communism embraces the connection need, and seeks a cooperative, socialistic structure based upon equal empowerment of its citizens. They attempt to provide equal access to education, job opportunities and health care to all citizens. Establishing cooperative structures for individual self empowerment is an enlightened idea, but it often comes at the expense of the need for individual freedom. Their desire for equal results does not recognize the rich diversity of human creative focus, the many destiny paths; nor does it accommodate the necessary free movement. They often offer a bland limited menu of resources and opportunities which stifles creativity, esteem, and the ability to find meaning in one's existence. This puts the cooperative cart before the horse of justice, and the citizens suffer in silence until they eventually revolt. This approach also recognizes that group ideals are necessary and has often attempted to control ideologies and religious choices of its members, through controlled information, media, and propaganda. This requires a certain amount of isolation, which immediately severs the connection with other humans, as well as violating the free choices and developmental opportunities required for a fulfilled spirit.  For many of the reasons listed above, the Communist system was doomed to failure. One might presume that it was defeated by Capitalism, a myth trumpeted by the politicians of the Capitalist system, but this is not quite the case. Communism failed in its competition with Capitalism as a result of the stifling of the basic freedoms of a truly democratic system, i.e. those listed in the American constitution. While limiting the freedom to expand intellectually and economically, it handicapped its citizens on the path of development in all areas. The end result became stagnation in most areas, a fact that became more evident with the development of more sophisticated systems of transportation and communication. Capitalism, on the other hand, embraces individual freedom, but fosters empowerment through win-lose economic competition, often leaving many unempowered. The misunderstandings about the true nature of competition discourages true connection and promotes individual and group isolation. (It should be recognized that all American competition relies upon cooperative frameworks. Raw win-lose competition is seldom allowed.)  One example of cooperative competition might be members of a particularly large corporation working together to defeat another, smaller corporation until the latter is forced into a financial condition where it must allow the larger corporation to buy it out. Following this "buy-out" the larger corporation initiates a "down-sizing" policy and many of the employees of the bought corporation are forced to seek employment elsewhere. This, inevitably, leads to a mentality of cynicism and a loss of faith in the system.  Win-lose competition in terms of freedom and empowerment will not work. Basic opportunities to learn how to meet needs, and job opportunities are often linked to financial economics, but are essential to biological justice. It sets people apart and allows individuals to run roughshod over one another, and to assume that some are capable of taking care of themselves and some are not. They celebrate the diversity and do not seek equal result, but use it to rationalize away equal opportunity. They ignore huge pockets of the disempowered and disenfranchised, and allow subcultures to arise which will work against the cooperative whole. At least building from the initial priority of individual freedom satisfies one of the conditions of justice, but the full concept of freedom and all its implications have yet to be embraced. Even Americans profoundly limit human freedom unnecessarily, which correspondingly limits the opportunities for empowerment.  While most may believe that they are enjoying the benefits of free thought and movement, the very system that grants them these privileges is, at the same time, depriving some in their environment of these needs. Knowing that they operate in a system that, at any moment, can put them in that "deprived" state, takes its toll in fear and insecurity. Both states of mind are uncomplimentary to true freedom. Where the benefits of the empowered are not enjoyed by all, those deprived of its benefits will seek to empower themselves through less acceptable means, which may often times include violent acts. It is any surprise, then, that America imprisons a significantly higher percentage of their population than any other democratic nation? Dare we look for a deeper explanation for this confounding state? Some would say it is the price we pay for a "free society". It is NOT!  Both forms are guilty of limiting individual liberty with all sorts of cultural judgments which attempt to legislate morality and limit certain activities. This violates the individual's right to privacy wherein any choices and learning opportunities should be available for any developmental experience. If any activity is chosen within the three purposes, it is a moral choice. Even if any activity is chosen through unconscious hardwired defensive responses, it is still a learning opportunity. With adequate education and social safety-nets, any "amoral" or corrective experience can offer the necessary insight, without the ongoing cycle of repeated learning errors that currently plagues most societies. (As we now know, this is a source of the illusion of evil). The natural result of restricting freedom is prevalent everywhere, yet most societies do not recognize the symptoms and simply deny that their controls are ineffective. If ideas are restricted, there will be underground sources of information. If religion is restricted, there will be underground religious networks. If any specific resource, commodity, or service is restricted, a black market will surely emerge. With humans, when there is demand, there will be a supply. Such is the need driven behavior and creativity of humanity. This is the lesson not quite learned by the American experiment of Prohibition of alcohol.  Take something that one portion of the population finds acceptable and allow another portion of the population to make it unavailable, and you set up a situation where conflict is initiated between the two varied points of view. This state of conflict ultimately results in ramifications throughout the society. Create undo stress in such a society and some will choose to escape through the intake of recreational drugs for example, whether they be legal or otherwise. This will eventually produce an environment where laws are flaunted and crime is rampant.  Thus, both Communism and Capitalism have part of the human story, but neither has it all. Both groups suffer social spiritual corrective signals of fear, anger, crime, violence, revolution, and emotional malaise. For all life forms are intended to be free and empowered within the context of connected cooperation. And the feelings will settle for nothing less.  They are, in effect, two peas in the same political/economic/social pod, opposites in their goals, but quite similar in their methods. Both adopt the principle that the end justifies the means and attempt to subvert the spiritual nature of humans in an effort to achieve a perceived ideal. When each evolves toward its own extreme state, those under its influence move perpetually toward a state of dissatisfaction.  Communistic attempts at cooperative living will immediately dissolve if either freedom or empowerment is compromised. Likewise, although individual freedom is essential, Capitalistic "competition" is not the way to get the highest kind of freedom in an interconnected cooperative world. Disempowerment occurs frequently under the guise of innocent competition, and despite jingoistic affirmations to the contrary, American competition only ensures "liberty and justice for...some". Those without it will rebel and secede from the cooperative unit. Where fear and anger exist, free-flowing justice is sure to be missing. Where justice is missing, defensive self-preservationary, amoral actions will be commonplace, as will external forms of control seeking to prevent them.  It has often been presumed that the reason cooperative systems fail is that humans operate on a basic instinct of greed, when in fact it is the squelching of "freedom or empowerment" that has been most responsible for the failure. In like fashion, the typical capitalistic enterprise usually discourages most forms of free thought and action, removing the protections normally guaranteed in the social and political realms. The choices are most often to go along with a policy or move on to another environment or risk being ousted from one's job. Thus, an inevitable schism evolves between workers and owners.  Justice is the required global condition that must be promoted by all world leaders. Justice ensures the fundamental respect and defense of natural biological boundaries that are valid for every human being despite the rich cultural diversity. In fact, justice encourages diversity of thought and action and life style, for it allows the freedom of each individual to creatively self-express in its own unique way. Justice opens doors and never closes them, unless to enforce the prevention of violations, (which are far less likely, when justice prevails). Justice provides to the world what bodily boundaries and safeguards offer the trinity of self.  The very words "...with liberty and justice for all", capture the essence of the above paragraph and are incorporated in our pledge of allegiance to our flag, a symbol of the freedoms and rights guaranteed by the Law of the Land, our Constitution. Would that these words be put into practice on a uniform basis and a great deal of the intent, as expressed in the above paragraph, would become a reality.  Justice ensures that humans will be free to move about and feel the evaluative outcome of their thoughts and actions in order to find and progress upon the developmental path. Justice will ensure that humanity can lift themselves beyond the survival level, and discover the much fuller potential of the being and transcendent levels of human experience. For indeed, humans are intended to be pulled toward their purposes by positive feelings instead of being pushed away from misguided thoughts and actions by painful experience. In short, a society is not just if it denies the universal rights and freedoms that the Creator has bestowed. Such arrogance should be self-evident.  Once the attractiveness of physical, mental and spiritual fulfillment is made plain to humans, there need not be systems in place to force them to move in a particular direction. The only systems that need to be kept in place are those that favor freedom, justice and of appreciation for one's fellow human beings.  The Biological Condition of Civilization  Connection without justice is simply not possible. Only when the environment is structured in ways that ensure basic freedom and empowerment to control one's own destiny, can it begin to evolve into a true civilization.  It is one thing to know an ideal. It is another thing to put it into practice. To do the latter requires a full appreciation of what we are, in a most complete sense. To know that we are physical, mental, emotional and spiritual and that we are free and creative beings. Then we can start to explore.  The biological condition of a true civilization, is one wherein justice prevails at all times, and individuals can then unite into a cooperative, connected social whole. Civilizations are advanced kinds of social structures that offer opportunities for their members to meet all six of the universal human needs. There are no right or wrong ways to do this. In fact, the more imaginative and creative the structures, the more opportunities they can provide. Civilization is not dependent upon technological advancement, only the effectiveness of its cooperative nature. Contrary to popular belief, the most technologically simple "savages" that have attained true cooperation are far more civilized than even the most technologically advanced warrior competing for basic power.  The best example of advanced civilization is nature. Unless interfered with by humans, it maintains an overall balance while continuing to evolve. We can observe it and we can even compliment it, but we can only improve upon it when we learn to emulate it.  True civilizations have social structures which enhance the life experience with many opportunities for self-development and self-expression, emphasizing the higher needs for connection, esteem, creativity, and meaning. There are free flowing ideas and myriad---unlimited---opportunities to meet needs and fulfill purposes. In a civilized community, all needs are met without violating the needs of any others, hence the natural morality of "do not do unto others that which pains thyself". This includes the pains of injustice perpetrated upon life forms by human folly.  If we can picture what we would like the world to be, understand the level of freedom necessary to work toward that goal and respect all the forms of existence around us while we strive to reach that goal, then we will be able to begin to call ourselves "civilized".  Any enlightened global social structure must ensure that it provides justice alone, and allows each individual community to devise the desirable civilized structures. The rich cultural traditions that have arisen are testimonial of the human creative expressive abilities and the natural enjoyment from tasting the fruits of many diverse customs and values. A cultural civilization can be likened to a mind---ever evolving, improving, and expanding in ways that allow for the maximum spiritual expression and fulfillment of its members. And many minds are, of course, better than one.  The only uniformity we need to concern ourselves with is that all are free to choose their own path, so long as that path brings no harm to another. Only with such a blessed attitude can we open ourselves to our true potential.  A civilized society is a purposeful society. For when all six needs are met, all three purposes can be met. For example, libraries, educational and technological systems exchange mental resources, share the knowledge we gather, and ensure avenues for gaining esteem and self-development. Our social, economic and political structures promote connection, cooperation, and accommodate the ongoing creative resource exchanges and social refinements. Our arts, religions, and sciences facilitate creativity and provide meaning. The flexibilities within our justice system ensure that cooperation is the #1 rule, violations are not tolerated, and just conditions are maintained.  As we expand along our path, we may even come to find out that there are more than "six needs" and more than "three purposes". It is when true freedom of possibility begins to seep into our institutional overlays, that we will escape from programmed strictures. If we look closely, we can already begin to see our institutions crumbling before our eyes.  The Role of Government  Recognizing the simple economics of need-meeting can define the role and dramatically enhance the effectiveness of government. A government is simply a structure through which the cooperative choices of the people can be carried out. If it becomes a controller or manipulator of freedom and power of its people, it shall never work, and should be heartily rejected---in revolutionary ways if need be.  When governments stray beyond their defined purposes, those who are affected by the increase in tyranny can act individually and collectively, within established guidelines or outside of them. We need not assign ourselves a perpetual role of victimization, unless this is all we can create for ourselves. We too easily forget that government is in the role of "employee" and that citizens are the collective "employer". Thus, it is the will of the latter that governs the former. Just as an employer would not tolerate an employee taking control of his business and operating it as he might wish, so the citizenry should not tolerate a government doing so at any level, i.e. conducting itself without consultation with and approval of that citizenry. When those elected to represent the public tend toward favoring the needs of the selective and vested interests, then it behooves the public to force those elected representatives from office or force them by public will, to alter their behavior.  Government at its raw essence is an organized structure which ensures that the cooperative unit is established, maintained, and continuously improved, based upon individual contributions which increase freedom and add opportunities. Good government adds resources, and facilitates that maximum creative, and ingenious forms of resources exchange. If it works with human nature, and succeeds in its role of facilitating justice, the economic and social health will naturally improve. It will promote far more pleasure than pain. (In fact, economic shifts accompany all social change and a healthy economy in the global interconnection is a sign of enlightened progress.)  While a government that institutes policies that enable its citizens to prosper at the expense of the disenfranchised or disadvantaged, may be favored by those who financially benefit, it lays the ground-work for upheaval, whether it be on the economic front or the political/social front. All boats must rise with the tide. Those that get ahead of the tide will only become unbalanced and eventually run aground. Good government will provide additional resources and opportunities for all members to freely meet their needs. For it will not promote isolation of present methods, but will assist each individual in self-development and self-expression and to be embraced within the cooperative whole.  Part of maintaining a balanced society is seeing to it that those who lag behind are given the opportunity to catch up with those who are enjoying the fruits of the system. This is not "help for helps sake", but "helping those who wish to help themselves".  Good government will focus only upon ensuring justice. The focus will remain upon individual freedom and empowerment. Opportunities will be built into the structure wherein each and every human can find avenues to meet their needs within the structures, regardless of money, family birthright, sex, age, race, or any other arbitrary distinction between spirits in flesh.  We do, in fact, create the level of freedom we deem appropriate for ourselves. To the degree that we believe in what we are entitled to, we acquire those things we feel we need. Good government should compliment that process and does so when we define its role as such.  Bad government will attempt to interfere with and control the natural flow of resource exchange. It will attempt to limit, to legislate external morality, control free information and resource exchanges, invade privacy, and cause far more harm than good. It will attempt to judge and prop up "the weak" while at the same time disempowering its members, creating man-made victims, martyrs and criminals. It will experience inner conflict, warring factions, and gridlock to the point that cultural evolution grinds to a halt. Over-regulation, welfare states, prohibition, victimless crimes, over-crowded prisons and even revolution will all result; as well as fear-driven, volatile or black market economies, and the subcultures, crimes and isolation they promote.  Much of what is described in the above paragraph can easily be found in our society and the societies of other cultures around the world. While we delude ourselves into believing that other cultures are inferior to our own, we are in danger of failing to hold ourselves responsible for our own shortcomings.  In a general sense, government must ensure structures which facilitate and protect self-determined actions of need-meeting self-preservation, while fostering the maximum opportunities for self-development and self-expression for each of its members. It should not attempt to externally control or remove power beyond the ensuring "liberty and justice for all". For without liberty and justice there can be no individual value fulfillment, without which there can be no expansion of the consciousness of the species, without which there can be no unobstructed expansion of All That Is.  Beginning with what we appreciate about ourselves and taking it the point of what we wish to have preserved by our tools of government, we fortify our environment with those characteristics which move us along our spiritual path.  With these simple principles of self-regulated self-determinism in place, we can now turn to the specific activities of enlightened, twenty-first century governments.  The Governmental "Body"  The most essential tasks of an enlightened governmental structure are those which mirror the hardwired tasks of the body within the trinity of self. As we now know, the role of the body within the divine self-regulation system is to ensure the minimum standards necessary for self-preservation. The body will overrule free will of mind with purposeful biological predestiny whenever its most basic needs are left unfulfilled. The mission of good government should be to establish external structures which prevent the needs of body from being overrun by the misguided choices of mind. Like the human body which contains the seeds of all needs and purposes, enlightened governmental structures use the natural attraction of positive emotion to guide and pull citizens in the highest directions, and use the push of pain as a fail-safe only to correct a misguided course. A successful government will acknowledge, value, and nurture the inner seeds of human purpose within a global citizenry.  Today, too much of "government" has become obsessed with manipulating humanity rather than nurturing its inner needs or "seeds". This is almost inevitable when government becomes separated from the populous by distance and falls under the influence of collective vested interests. It is further compounded when more economically powerful governments use the tools of usury to influence other governments and prevent or discourage them from fully addressing the needs of their own people.  This mission translates into several goals common among all enlightened governments. First, that individuals are all afforded the essential informational resources to: Understand themselves, to understand the grand game, and to take accountable control of their own destiny. Second, that structural opportunities exist which allow each individual to: Join the cooperative unity, to freely and creatively engage in need-meeting resource exchanges; to enjoy ongoing self-development and self-expression; and to begin contributing as soon as possible. Third, that structural safeguards are in place to: Protect the freedoms and rights of all within the cooperative unity from isolation and competitive violation.  With the "First" intent, free or affordable education (whether private or public, whether at home or in an educational institution) be made available to child and adult alike. With the "Second" intent, a place should be created in the collective psyche for toleration of all forms of economic endeavors, whether they be public or private, socialistic or capitalistic. With the "third" intent, certain protections should be put in place that would check the economically superior from brutalizing those "mom & pop" operations which only seek to serve a need and enjoy an acceptable income.  Enlightened governments accomplish these goals by allocating the shared resources of their citizens into creative infrastructures which accommodate and stimulate these inner guidance mechanisms. The role is better one of temporary guidance than ongoing regulation. Those who attempt to repress or control through rigid external laws will only create predictable forms of malaise and revolt, for humans are not designed to ensure artificial (external) control or accept institutionalized pain. The human spirit will not tolerate being forced into submission, and will move the body to burst free from any such chains. Many governments have fallen or become massive, unwieldy, monsters because they fail to understand or accommodate basic biological justice. Thus, true civilization cannot arise until the condition of justice for all is achieved.  The "inner guidance mechanisms" referred to above is bound to become a casualty of a mentality that believes that the only way to deal with elements of society which do not conform to a highly (but artificially) defined criteria of "what" human behavior should be, is to pass more laws. The increase in "laws" leads directly to an increase in the size of bureaucracy and an unwielding state. In a free society that cares about itself, guidance can supersede the need for all but the absolutely necessary laws. A system to collect the necessary revenue to run government can and should move toward simplification rather than away from it. The maintaining of friendly relations with other governments (even when those governments hold an alternate political or economic philosophy) can reduce the likelihood of war or the need for expensive military equipment or large standing armies.  Safeguarding - Ensuring Global Justice  For maximum benefit, governmental budgets must be prioritized just as the trinity of self prioritizes its needs. The safeguards must come first with the foundational assurances of basic freedom and empowerment of all people. Only when rightful self-preservation is cooperatively accommodated can true self-development and self-expression be fostered. But only recently in human history has the concept of freedom even begun to take root. But without the enlightened understandings, freedom leads to natural evolutionary breakdowns which are perceived as threats of disorder and create the fearsome image of a sinful people run amok. The fear of disorder then causes defensive responses which pile on all forms of external control, which only erodes the fledgling freedom.  Freedom without a recognition of the innate spiritual qualities of those granted such freedom, conjures up fear of where that freedom might lead. Fear is then likely to be followed by repression. Those who occupy the higher levels of government, or any other institutions, are prone to belittle the depth and strength of character of the masses. In doing so, they mistakenly place control ahead of responsibility and, in doing so, corrupt the ideals they are sworn to uphold.  Like individual development, all defensive responses within an organization simply scuttle the natural learning cycle, impede growth, and create further emotional pain. As this painful cycle continues, it is only a matter of time before any such government or group will collapse under their own excess weight. Governments that cling to any political or religious doctrine of rigid external control are biologically destined to fail socially and economically. It is only through rightful freedom and empowerment that this cycle can be broken.  Within any democratic form of government there should exist a special unit which is charged with the responsibility for reducing governmental influence. The purpose of such a unit would be to encourage a people to take greater control over their lives and develop greater faith in their own sensibilities. A government that works in tandem with such an effort will grow in spiritual qualities along with the governed.  The most recent historical forms of government, including the American community, have taken an enlightened step forward. They have arisen due to the growing recognition that liberty---both freedom and empowerment---are the only way. The early American visionaries held a faith in the laws of nature and the inherent rights and abilities endowed within human nature. The organizing and constitutional documents recognize the universal equality of human beings, honor the basic urge to pursue happiness, and set forth protection of individual liberty.  This is the ideal upon which the American government was founded. But make no mistake about it, there are always those who operate within such a system that find such ideals to be in conflict with their separate agendas. It is for this reason that such liberties are eroded. But like all other governments, they have failed to recognize the role of negative emotion as a driver of both freedom and power---power devoid of unenlightened external controls. Somewhere along the line, the misguided notion that humans have a sinful or animalistic nature replaced the idea of divine providence and faith in nature. The result is the attempt to grant freedom, but without any real empowerment of the people, and competing political factions which can be likened to the conflicting purposes of a self-preserving body and a self-developing mind.  Both religion and science have contributed to the deprecation of human nature, each by making presumptions of that nature that robs it of its dignity. If humans are sinful, then they need to be kept in line by religious dictates. If they are anarchistic, then they must be controlled by a plethora of laws. In each case, outside control strives to take the place of inner spiritual guidance.  This is simply due to the lack of understanding of human purpose. Until the understanding is in place that humans have not one, but three purposes such infighting will continue. Rightful empowerment must be based upon the inner accountability to use freedom in purposeful ways that bring long-term pleasure. Until humans know of their inner goodness, how to follow divine guidance, and how to avoid animal level fight and flight responses, there will be the illusion that they cannot control themselves, the perceived need for external controls, and all kinds of competitive advise on how to attain such control.  The road to spiritual enlightenment must be paved by those who are willing to give up some of the traffic controls and trust that those who travel down that road are quite capable of steering their own way toward that universal goal.  Separation of church and state in America has been successful in disentangling the government from the rigid and competing belief structures which caused most historical revolt, and it has encouraged cultural diversity and tolerance. But it has also created an attitude against any natural purpose, values, or morality, which in the context of competition becomes a free-for-all of ignorant moralistic passions which further divide the union. All political factions which pit conservatism against liberalism, equality against freedom, competition against cooperation, one moralistic doctrine against another, or rights against responsibilities, are misguided and will ultimately be forced by its citizens to change.  When you separate spiritual values from government, you encourage separation within spiritual institutions, economic philosophies, and governmental bodies, to the point where all issues automatically become divided and in opposition to each other.  The acceptance of inner conflict between body and mind actually bases the concept on good-old-American competition. It is revered as a pillar of national economic success, yet it denies equal opportunity.  This is a grand illusion, for it is the cooperative freedom that makes the capitalistic marketplace a success. Global freedom and empowerment can only be attained if external controls are removed, the concept of purposeful inner directed cooperation embraced, opportunities created, and the rights of all protected against violation. Ironically, the misguided ideas about competition actually perpetuated a great deal of violation that would not otherwise exist.  The concept of a people divided against each other for the purpose of economic gain only contributes to a fostered state of conflict where there must ultimately be a victory and an vanquished. Peace, harmony and cooperation do not naturally evolve from a state of encouraged and established conflict.  Global Cooperation Without Violation  Rightful freedom and empowerment will minimize competition because it will minimize anger. Anger is that force which draws the line in the sand, and safeguards our innate rights by moving us to fight for them. Once the line is drawn---for all the world to see---rights are acknowledged and protected through just social structures, competitive anger and win-lose scenarios are no longer desirable or necessary. In short, there is no need---nor impulse---in a cooperative world for disruptive, defensive aggression. Then, as the feeling signals are allowed to accomplish their purposeful tasks, the self-concept naturally grows and expands to enfold the needs of others. To the enlightened mindscape, perpetuating violations to one is emotionally understood as a source of pain for all. Nonetheless, until mass consciousness embraces the essential human knowledge, defense from violation is a necessity. It would be naive to presume that all it would take to create a world where conflict would be universally opposed because those who view it would be repulsed by it, is to wish for such a state and it would be so. In fact, a large portion of the leadership of the planet's population still believes that conflict resolution is best achieved through conflict. It is still considered the solution of first resort rather than one of last resort.  As part of the safeguard systems, any government must have structures in place which discourage and negatively sanction survival-level competition or any action which results in violation. Violation is basically the infringement upon the rights of others to freely control their own destiny, or any acts which obstruct another's free engagement in purposeful, cooperative resource exchange. Violations are acts of singular self interest which deny the interests of others.  It would behoove any government to set up a system of communication that encourages those with legitimate complaints to make their views known, with ample opportunity for those with opposing views to respond in kind. Following this exchange of views, the general public would be invited to weigh in with a more detached perspective. In this way, a fair public hearing would evolve to enable governments to make fair and equitable decisions where "infringements upon the rights of others" might arise.  Humanity has yet to evaluate the very concept of violation and to extend it to all life forms in the political structures that they willfully design. These reflections will lead to values which recognize that global resources are limited, should be respected, shared, replenished, and conservatively utilized in social structures that balance resources with those that rely upon them to meet their needs. Runaway population, inadequate resources, and cultural values which consume more than they contribute, are all states of imbalance which enlightened governmental structures can avoid. For when balance in the resource marketplace is attained, emotional energy flows freely, win-win cooperative exchanges become the natural norm and violations are greatly reduced.  Wherever global resources are not being replenished or intelligently managed, government can play an important role in encouraging and requiring those who are exploiting those resources to relegate a certain portion of their profits to coming up with alternative sources of the needed material or a recycling system that reduces the consumption of such resource to an acceptable (and non-threatening) level. For example, if the consumption of petroleum as fuel is threatening the environment, the use of such fuel can be taxed and that tax used to reduce that level of consumption and find an alternate, but viable source of energy.  Reducing and eliminating global violation must focus upon establishing the global values of cooperative resource development, sharing, replenishment and free exchange. With the freedom and empowerment for each country to develop and share their unique resources, global economic health and development can be assured, without overtaxing the environment or institutionalizing violation of other people or species. Successful economics will always ensure that they do not consume more resources than they produce, nor squander valuable assets. For example, with enlightened global values, countries that now have economic dependence upon the export and exploitation of exotic but dwindling animal species, can instead develop specific exotic experiences by attracting paying visitors who can find discovery and meaning in the local nature and culture. Photos, books, cultural traditions, and stories can be shared instead of pelts, bones and blood.  A country might outlaw the shooting of endangered animals with rifles, but encourage the taking of photographs or videos with telephoto lenses from safe distances and the sharing of these accomplishments between those of like mind. Threatened species would then survive, thrive and multiply, to the benefit of all who value them. We have choices other than to deplete our natural resources. Only the self-involved minority wishes to destroy to the point of general deprivation. We need only but to evolve beyond the point of government of, by and for the vested interest.  Fostering Global Connection  When leaders of the free world recognize the biological human blueprint, the greatest achievements of all forms of government can be culled into some basic global principles that underlie the development of structural opportunities to empower and connect all individuals. Freedom and empowerment can establish justice, but when the connection need is also satisfied, true civilization can commence.  Communication among diverse cultures that agree to share the values of human worth, i.e. that human beings are the true treasure of the planet, can override the most perplexing of problems and lead to creative solutions, which in turn can lead to increasing civility and opportunity for all.  Like any group, each nation, in its own way, seeks to foster connection amongst its people for cohesion and cooperative living. But it is the concept of global connection that is yet to come. Connection cannot occur without justice, for if basic power and freedom is compromised, individuals will necessarily break unity and self-protect at the expense of cooperation. This is a biological certainty and an important safeguard for any individual---from cell to country. But the highest pleasures and the long-term rewards of purpose will only be met through global cooperative connection.  When a nation can apply on a global scale those qualities that are exercised in achieving connection among its own people, it can take the lead in achieving justice with tolerated diversity. As barriers begin to come down, the free exchange of information and goods will encourage the resolution of imbalances and misunderstandings.  Attaining connection translates into global governmental efforts to unify and unite individuals and to reduce the isolating roadblocks that are now so prevalent within and between human cultural and geographical communities. At present, the fledgling NATO community is laying the first foundations for what will become a global constitution of sorts. It will set forth a mission of universal self-determinism and cooperative dictates just as the body sets forth the universal human needs.  While NATO does have the potential to break down barriers and bring a greater level of cohesion between former enemies, it is still oriented toward the use of force to bring about desired results. Having been founded as a military entity, it will have to rise from its own ashes to become an enlightened force for spiritual progress.  If enlightened, it will not attempt to regulate, moralize, or otherwise interfere with the individual choices within the resource guidelines. It will ensure the basic freedom and empowerment of each individual country to control its own cultural destiny and to cooperatively contribute its unique creative, cultural, and natural resource offerings for exchange in the global marketplace. Such a document shall contain the general tenets suggested in the Global Government Mission Statement, and Declaration of Unity offered herein. (See conclusion of this Lesson).  It will move toward becoming a United States of Europe, while allowing the necessary individualization of each respective country, knowing that as communication and travel expands between these separate countries and cultures grows, so will the energy of enlightenment grow as well.  Such a document can base an enlightened, cooperative world marketplace, wherein individual countries choose to participate and to play by the scant, but effective, global rules. Members accept freedom as well as the responsibility and accountability for its purposeful, cooperative use. Official participation can take the form of economic membership contributions which support the minimal administration of such a world government.  When it comes to the establishment of "global rules", the basic rule should be the fewer the better. The intent to maintain "minimal administration" would be not only essential but enlightened. By encouraging each country to exercise whatever creative means it chooses to blend with the ideals of the collective whole, the true spiritual energy of each will likely come forth.  There can be varying levels of recognition status that can be earned within the world community, based upon the positive contributions and the level of cooperation acted upon the world stage. Positive sanctions and esteem can be offered for exceptionally enlightened contributions, as well as corrective sanctions when necessary. Such a structural strategy would set the stage to accommodate the present tit-for-tat morality until full cooperation is attained. Eventually all countries will see the tremendous benefits of global membership and willfully choose to partake, rather than be bullied into compliance by even the most well-meaning of countries.  Some of these principles are already in place in the western hemisphere and are beginning to bring economic benefits through agreements such as NAFTA. On the other hand, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are running into feedback that should be telling them that they need to make a course correction along the lines indicated above.  The American government, which has helped give birth to the enlightened global order, has also interfered with its natural evolution by overzealously exporting the concept of freedom in an unenlightened guise also promoting unbridled competition. Those countries that recognize the value of equal empowerment, feel genuine fear and anger over such imprudent use of aggression, and have resisted cooperation within the NATO unity in defense of their value of equal opportunity. For no global cooperative can work without freedom, equal empowerment, and connection among its empowered parts, or the oppressed will rightfully aggress and defense will be necessary.  Too often, a nation that excels in its power base, inversely fails in its ability to exercise tolerance of views that seem to threaten economic portions of its power base. This is the point where corporate business interests must be reined in. A government's military arm must not be used simply as a protective arm of vested interests which are failing to practice an enlightened policy.  Competitive Vs. Cooperative Defense  But just as the human body is designed to accomplish defense by cooperative self-regulation, so does a government require a cooperative form of self-defense. Competitive forms of self-defense are the kind wherein the mind tries to bully the body into conforming to misguided beliefs. The deadly habits are all strategies of competitive defense, wherein one appears to win temporarily, but both actually lose in the end. Resistance and revenge upon the legitimate interests of any country are tantamount to revenge by the right hand upon the left. Competitive defense is simply a manifestation of the fight and flight responses, symptomatic of a world without mindful understanding and control of itself. The level of competitive defense can be assessed at any time by the amounts of both weaponry and prisons.  The United States is the leader in both areas of "weaponry and prisons". This is a distinction that should alert us to the fact that we are probably not in the state of enlightenment we could and should be in. In our case, the mind of our enormous government plays the role of bullying us into believing peace is best maintained by standing ready to make war. As a result of this misguided concept, we tend to indulge in military actions on a regular basis. In evolving into a singular world power, it would appear that the inconsistency of that philosophy is not even considered.  Instead, cooperative forms of defense are those which seek out informational signals from all realms and act upon them with Right and Light responses. Cooperative defense will bring lasting changes that come from global efforts of self-development. All such efforts will build opportunities which empower, rather than disempower and destroy people in denial of the messages of their voices. Defense will take the form of enlightened prevention and avoidance of conditions which create painful individual and social symptoms. Cooperative defense will be far more effective at resolving the root source---the lack of freedom and empowerment---rather than simply flailing against the symptoms themselves.  The concepts of "fight and flight" carry with them a propensity toward hysteria which tend to creep into the decision-making process whenever there is an international situation involving one country on the edge of conflict with another. Where there are no international examples of conflict resolution that do not involve taking military action, the latter becomes the norm rather than the solution of last resort. Consider this: How much "enlightenment" was apparent in the waging of the 1st and 2nd Persian Gulf Wars? It would appear that a peaceful resolution to avoid military action was barely considered in either. The time is past when humans can deny their brotherhood. The evolution of human technology has forced humans to confront their need for global connection and cooperative defense, there can be no more competitive jungle struggles in a nuclear age. Most countries already recognize how fight and flight defense can easily become global annihilation, yet many still scramble for the power and safety of a hearty nuclear arsenal in a world that does not yet ensure biological justice. With enlightened global guidance, countries will be pulled into the unity for the pleasurable, synergistic benefits of cooperation, rather than be forced into compliance with painfully competitive threats and bombs.  Great leaders do not so much push as they inspire. If you are recognized as being a great and powerful nation, that very status will entitle you to the distinction of being listened to. If you capitalize on that position, you can then bring to the world those qualities which ensure true peace, along with social justice on all levels. To paraphrase one well-known saying: "If you carry a big stick, you need only speak softly."  Cooperative defense consists of a two-pronged approach, of adding unifiers and removing dividers. Unifiers facilitate the cooperative whole and utilize positive emotion as an inner motivation to guide purposeful living. Dividers are those beliefs, (individual and en mass), which promote inner personal disunity which is then experienced as outer, social disunity. Indeed, "no man is an island".  The point which should be emphasized in a situation of potential conflict is how much the adversaries have in common, how each nation's children may be only different in the language they speak or the customs of their respective cultures. To put them at risk for reasons that can probably be worked out in good-faith negotiations, is to commit a crime against one's own most precious resource.  Unifying structures are those that force healthy emotional development, self unity, expressive opportunity and social cohesion. They find and impart common understandings, allow all citizens to join the community family, to freely and consistently meet the basic survival needs in the marketplace of resource exchange, and find and refine avenues of self-development and expression. They are common systems of enculturation which share common values, methods, strategies and impart knowledge and skills. They are common infrastructures to facilitate maximum opportunity through communication, mobility, productivity, creativity, and potential resource exchanges in local and global marketplaces. They are mechanisms to ensure access to minimum standards of living, public safety, and prevention of and defense against competitive violations. Unifiers will foster and usher the emergence of natural morality.  It is when we begin to care about each other as human beings and fellow planet dwellers, that we move toward adopting those "principles" and "structures" which put in place all the intents and purposes listed above. It begins with an exercise of will and plays itself out through an unlimited series of creative opportunities.  Dividing structures are any and all which counteract true inner and outer connection. They are the institutionalized slivers, the world views, educational systems, political persuasions, religious beliefs, economic institutions that misunderstand the trinity of self, and/or divide humankind into fragmented, isolated, competitive groupings. They are external attempts to regulate behavior, legislate morality, prohibit certain experiences, thoughts, and/or actions, and justify the disempowerment and relegation of some humans to positions of isolation or dependency. Dividing structures ensure that natural morality will be thwarted. When competition is taken down to the local human level and people are set against each other because of their differences, all manner of social problems spring up and fester. Yet, it is in moving to promote common interests and the development of those qualities basic to the best in human nature that the engines of human progress begin to hum.  Such basic and loose guidelines for resource conservation, freedom, empowerment, connection, and cooperative defense within the global community shall be sufficient to reestablish biological justice. Once these fundamental needs are met, the only necessary limits to individual offerings are the boundaries of insight, creative imagination, and spiritual feedback. From there, individual countries can enhance the global structures with creatively diverse forms of civilizations and technological ingenuities which meet the cultural and creative desires of their citizens. Each country can establish civilizing structures of their choosing which can foster the meeting of needs for self-esteem, creativity, and meaning---all of which should contribute significantly to the resource pool and economic health of the country.  There are countries on the planet which are good examples of what can be achieved when the above described environment is put into practice. While such countries may not be in complete compliance with the ideals expressed at this point, they can stand as beacons of inspiration to those on the road to progress. Success carries with it a certain degree of responsibility. Cooperation in carrying out that responsibility is a goal worth striving toward.  Sanctioning Violations  Once a global cooperative agreement with just parameters is in place, there will arise a world self-regulating feedback mechanism wherein continuous communications, evaluations, and corrections can be made. This will include a feeling-driven judicial court of sorts, wherein grievances can be heard, mediated, and violations negatively sanctioned. It becomes the responsibility of each country to actively express in this manner when any violations are perceived, in order to reduce pain of any life forms.  What might be construed initially as merely a series of "bitching" sessions, can be the opening of a collective line of communication directed toward achieving a responsible exchange of views, with the ultimate intent of reducing those frictions which (when not addressed properly) too often lead to exchanges of force. This is particularly true in a world awash in armaments.  The most effective "punishment" for violators, is not punishment at all, but negative sanctions which communicate the non-acceptance of the violation and which actively enlighten the violator about the nature and responsibility of free will. Once a violator truly understands the concept of connection, his or her own emotional system will guide the moral actions, for they will know with fearless trust that their rights are also protected in this manner.  It would also be important to have these discussions carried out in a public forum so that citizens from all countries and cultures could view the positions taken by each side of a disagreement and make it clear to their respective governments their own insights about the merits of each side. This would put in place a faith in the innate spirit of human nature with an opportunity for such spirit to be freely expressed.  The tit-for-tat moral structure can be accommodated within the membership status classes, wherein trust is assumed, but status is commensurate with the level of cooperation actually displayed in resource exchange interactions. With varying levels of membership which reflect the global esteem earned through cooperative contributions, countries can earn global respect and leadership positions. The learning component in all sanctions is necessary, since development is an individual process, and trial and error learning with pleasure/pain feedback, is the most direct route to purposeful self-development. Just as a child should be given as much empowerment as can be responsibly used, so then can developing countries be offered conditional membership, and allowed their normal growing pains as they learn.  Once politics and manipulation are put aside and leadership, coupled with responsibility, become the virtues and examples expressed by the stronger nations toward those not occupying such positions, the evolution toward a tradition of peaceful resolution of respective problems will follow naturally.  This form of global sanctioning can also be used locally to replace many unnecessary, expensive, and excessive forms of punishment---which are, at heart, competitive forms of defense. The concept of incarceration is wrong-minded for many violators. Safeguard protections would be far more beneficial wherein the violators were educated, and able to redeem themselves in ways that positively affect the victim or community. Giving such a learning experience constitutes an expressive correction, a Light Response, as well as a Right Response and is far less costly and far more aligned with the spiritual system. The popular idea that redemption and rehabilitation are not possible is a severe limitation within mass consciousness perpetuated by the myth of sin and evil and fostered by structures which deny equal opportunity. Humans can become convinced of their own evil if never offered an alternative, more enlightened explanation for fight and flight impulses.  There are times when an incorrect policy must be allowed to move to an extreme before the fallacy of it can be apparent on a broad enough scale for it to be corrected. When one country elects to imprison and execute a larger percentage of its population than any other country in the world, it must eventually face the possibility that it is not living up to the highest ideals or the most enlightened policies. Religious and political institutions that can not lead their members to a greater state of enlightenment will, in the end, be the followers of the process of change.  The educational system alone can accomplish many such safeguards and will be discussed separately, but self-regulation information can be made available in many existing systems and outlets wherein entities can continuously have access to higher and higher levels of self understanding, and be given opportunities to choose the more purposeful and rewarding life track.  Before such a process can proceed to the point of making a difference in the world we live in, a greater level of awareness of the value of all human beings must creep into the collective unconscious. This can only start out with conscious reflection on an individual level.  Local Government & The Feedback Cycle  As should now be apparent, all organisms operate upon the self-regulating principles of cyclic interaction, feedback, and correction, and government is no exception. These natural patterns will guide the most effective forms of any human grouping and should be recognized as the Creator's divine blueprint. At present, even with its limits, the American form of government with its three branches illustrates this emerging pattern:  What may seem at times to be gross misconduct on the part of our government, is simply a propensity to stray from the principles upon which it was founded. One branch or another may seem to be falling under the influence of forces that are, one might say, less than enlightened. Yet, because these respective branches can add varied perspectives to the issues of our time, the opportunity for self-correction remains in place.  The legislative branch sets forth the laws of public policy which can ensure certain constitutional rights of its people. This policy is likened to an individual mind's chosen mental motives which seek to meet the body's needs. The administrative branch carries out the policies by establishing and maintaining avenues of opportunity while ensuring the public safety. These activities are likened to the behavioral actions in the feedback cycle, where the motives are tested in the world to see if they attain the desired outcomes. Then the judicial branch has the task of evaluating that outcome. Finally all three play roles in correcting strategies and policies.  When each branch sticks to its respective role and carries out that role in the best interest of the governed and is not swayed by political consideration and future elections, or vested interests and their monetary assets, then the process can operate in a pure environment. When these respective roles are subverted, the entire system suffers and no one branch can effectively correct the missteps of any other.  This form of government has several of the enlightened puzzle pieces in place, yet still contains judgmental assumptions and unclear lines of responsibility that promote infighting, conflict, ineffective communication and development---all of which can be rectified with the precise understandings of the trinity of self.  There exists in society at this time an institution which can play the role of bringing about such a rectifying. Unfortunately, it lacks the understanding of what these Lessons are trying to express. Were it to adopt this new paradigm, it would be in a position to begin to influence other institutions, such as the type of government that was created for the United States to operate under.  The first of which is the entanglement of economics and the legislative process, which limits the amount of feedback that is considered in the policy making decisions. Another is the removal of unnecessary controls that attempt to legislate morality or cultural value. Another still, is the removal of excessive regulation and taxation which interferes with, and often prevents, free enterprise. All such changes flow from the spiritual adjudicator, and eventually will come about through the internal forces of the needs of the people.  What is being referred to in the first case is simply influence paid for by vested interests which donate generously toward re-election campaigns. The second refers to influential religious groups that claim to represent voting blocks and, thus, attempt to influence legislation. The third is the evolution of bureaucratic departments which develop a life of their own and begin to exercise power far beyond what any of the respective branches of government ever intended. The correction of these mis-directions lies in the bowels of the human spirit and can come forth in the proper environment.  At present, the judicial branch can only evaluate against existing, often conflicting policies, and is severely limited in its empowerment and often does more harm than good. Many such judges, base decisions upon doctrine of sin and evil and further stymie the developmental progress of the nation. This branch has now become entangled with more administrative functions in carrying out corrective actions according to existing, and often flawed policies and laws. Their evaluations and suggested corrections often breed further intolerance, victimization, isolation, and loss of personal freedom.  There has been a resurgence in the judicial branch in recent years to presume that acceptance of the taking of human life under what are considered to be justified circumstances is in line with the moral guidelines of our society. Such actions have only resulted in demeaning the quality of life itself. In short, such actions have and continue to be counter-productive.  If this branch is to be at all effective at balancing power, it must clarify its role of evaluation. It must have ultimate authority to render decisions that are fully aligned with the spiritual adjudicator to ensure that legislation---even the constitution itself---and all forms of correction stay within the bounds of the divine design. With the final authority of natural law as evidenced in the emotional patterns, all cultural laws can be correctly evaluated so that all guiding policies continuously evolve to match the divine design.  This may require the stretching of understanding beyond the limits of religious dogma and tradition. It may require the acceptance of ideas that stretch beyond the limits of Judaic-Christian culture. It will require, at the very least, a willingness to seek guidance more from within and a trust that this is where all true guidance dwells.  Representative Government - The Value of Each Voice  Like a body attuned to all of its cells, a government is indeed "of the people, by the people, and for the people." Enlightened governments are based primarily upon the input of the people they serve. Those that are based upon rigid worldviews, competitive economic interest groups, and limited ideologies discourage the purpose of self-development and shall relegate their members to daily doses of spiritual pain. Indeed, like the body, a government guides the development of the public mind---a mass reflection of the individual minds which comprise it, with equally important fluidity in its chosen beliefs and cultural strategies. Most governments remain in rigid adherence to value judgments handed down from earlier days wherein religious worldviews dominated governments.  While the old expression, "You get what you pay for", might be all too appropriate in our current economic/political situation, in the American system, citizens do end up with the kind of government practices they have come to tolerate. The fact is, like the governments we have come to expect, our cultural outlook is subject to the same limitations of our traditional way of thinking which are reflected in how those who govern us think and perform.  At present, those governments based upon this democratic input process have enjoyed the most success, but many still suffer the pitfalls of excess economic dividers. As long as representative government promotes competition at the expense of cooperation, there will be factions of power instead of the free opportunity for all to become empowered. The laws will follow the reinforcement of the "haves versus the have-nots" as those empowered become the loudest voices in the input process. These are the modern vestiges of institutionalized dividers along lines of blood and class, which forced many historical revolts as human voices raged in spiritual anger.  When 5% of the population ends up with 80% of the wealth, economic injustice is bound to prevail. Such economic power ends up being passed down from one generation to the next. Wealth buys the influence to protect those who have it. This state feeds a level of discouragement which can't help but grow toward mass indifference toward the political process and a social level of anger expressed in violence. Hence, more crime, prisons and public executions.  An enlightened government must also embrace the true meaning of freedom and equal empowerment and fully honor the spiritual meaning implied therein. These judgments automatically stifle many voices whose individual destiny paths necessitate experiences deemed to be off limits by the cultural moral choices of some which become local law. Laws which deny the free-flowing patterns of human trial and error experience merely thwart their own best interest.  To have the principles of freedom stenciled in concrete around the statues of those who helped found a government, apparent for all to see and believe; contrasted against a compromised system which seeks to maintain economic inequality, is to breed a level of spiritual anxiety destined to result in a continuing level of decay. A government, like a parent, must allow some opportunity for learning through mistakes, as long as no serious harm is done and opportunity for corrective action remains in place.  Whether or not the contribution of each member is officially offered in a political process, all voices can easily be heard to an attentive ear. A truly representative government listens to all voices by attuning carefully to the spiritual feedback its structures bring. Market fluctuations, public opinion, cultural themes and trends, crime levels, mental illness, and every form of human pain are all voices to be heard. When the government servants of an electoral system spend more of their time concentrating on acquiring the economic resources to get themselves re-elected than to attuning to the physical, mental and spiritual needs of their constituents, then the system suffers and declines.  Each community can readily observe the spiritual symptoms of its folly should it choose to avoid resistant defense. Black markets, economic subcultures, overcrowded prisons, exorbitant health care costs, welfare states, self-abuse, addiction, and violence comprise a veritable chorus of resounding voices which now falls upon deaf ears. Each social problem contains its own solution when the underlying needs and emotional patterns are addressed rather than ignored, denied, or written off as sinful or incompetent human nature. Good governments actively seek out these voices and effect immediate resolutions to the lingering malaise following the needs and purposes of spirit.  The cynic proclaims, "People are just no good!", while forgetting that he/she make up the very species they condemn. Too often, those who hold political power delude themselves into thinking they are separate and a step above those they are elected or appointed to serve. Thus, their time is spent listening predominantly to those of like mind and stature.  For example, most governments struggle against the human desire to experience altered states of consciousness by imbibing chemical substances. Likewise, many struggle helplessly to combat the sale of sexual services. They struggle because these offer, at present, necessary human learning experiences. As long as there is a demand for certain experiences, there will be a supply in the grand marketplace. This is simply in keeping with the trial and error nature of human learning, the hedonic inner movers, and the nature of free resource exchange---all inherent in the Divine Design.  The greatest government resistance is against those substances which can not be taxed. Those substances which are heavily taxed by government, become the subject of an economic addition when governments come to rely on the revenue resource. But the deeper problem is the general lack of understanding of human nature and its need to explore its surroundings. Also, it should be understood, that a life of frustration can sometimes lead to "chemical" escape.  As we now know, all experiences are moral if they serve as learning experiences, and steps in natural individual development. In fact, many of the current desires are based in defensive escapism due to the lack of self-understanding and the predominance of institutionalized disempowerment and pain. The demand for such experiences will dramatically reduce once more unifiers are in place.  To imprison people for initial mistakes may be educational in intent, but the company of warped attitudes present in such an environment seldom leads to a state of spiritual enlightenment. Further, if the economic system continues to punish people long after they have "served their time", then further violations of law are almost inevitable. Rehabilitating the wrong-doer should take precedence over punishment, and this requires understanding and compassion.  Although the answer of simple removal of unnecessary restrictions would profoundly improve the efforts of government, these symptoms are ignored and denied. The voices are given no official validity. Likewise, there are many positive voices which speak of systems, ideas and values which are working because they bring long-term pleasure. Thus, a truly representative government must actively search, listen, and decode each of its positively creative as well as negatively symptomatic voices. Fortunately, despite historical upheaval and revolution, many of the enlightened ideas have taken root here and there, for spirit does indeed push humanity in purposeful directions.  Government should be in a constant state of revolution, restrained and controlled, but guided toward the intent of constantly improving the opportunities of its citizens to express themselves in creative ways. Only in this full level of opportunity can spiritual enlightenment survive and thrive.  The modern technological advances are beginning to facilitate the kind of communication and information exchanges that can yield a far more representative government which can attune to and synergize all such voices. These information exchange technologies will begin removing the judgmental and divisive ideas and mechanisms and can open the floodgates. Administrative governments can interact within their various institutions to gather and analyze each kind of feedback and incorporate it into evolving policies. Then through the ongoing attunement and analysis of the feedback, governments can shape and develop themselves as effectively as the most enlightened mind. It can then allow its people to freely evolve and accomplish the maximum self-development and expression to hurtle humanity forward in enlightened cultural evolution. The government that follows the principles of unity of purpose cannot help but blossom and provide enriched opportunities for fulfillment.  With the communicative systems we now have in place for a significant number of our citizens, the public can make its opinion available to the most responsive branches of our government. Public support can and should guide government actions. Governments, in turn, can not afford the luxury of ignoring the public mind. Even today, our news media is beginning to solicit the public's view on daily happenings. This is an example of an institution taking the lead in moving toward a more enlightened society.  Financing Good Government  The current situation of humanity is still far afield from the potential experience of full creative manipulation of energy and physical matter. The constant energy conversion and physical manifestation is now mostly accomplished through the earning and exchange of money. Thus, the grand natural marketplace has become an economic cultural resource arena wherein individuals work to receive the financial freedom to design the life course. The empowerment comes through job opportunities to create and contribute in the grand marketplace. Thus, freedom and empowerment now revolve around the ability for each individual to find an economic niche and make a living. Government then garnishes a bit of these earnings to contribute to the cooperative structures, or attempts to redistribute resources to the "needy" who are often not held accountable for any form of contribution.  So it is that government plays the role of arbitrator of the earned wealth of the majority, funneling a portion of same to those they deem in need and giving justification for the ever increasing size of each department in the process. The existence of poverty provides a comfortable livelihood for those who make up and apply the regulatory hoops the needy are required to jump through in order to get the needed assistance. But there is a movement of late to get them beyond the state of dependency which, if understood and appreciated, could lead to an increase in enlightenment on many levels, provided it is carried out with the proper level of compassion.  In lieu of enlightened guidance, most governments thwart themselves with conflicting assumptions that cause them to squander the available resources on ventures not aligned with natural emotional patterns. There is infighting and shifting of political tides wherein one party reverses a course, and then another reverses it yet again. Entire agencies are born and take on self-protecting lives of their own. Government can then become an unwieldy spendthrift, causing a citizen backlash of fear, anger, and mistrust against the government.  In a democratic system, these swings of the pendulum are regulated through the election process. Where this safety valve doesn't exist, change tends to be more violent in nature. Whatever the method of this warring mentality, it is clear that the nature of this dissatisfaction lies deep within the human psyche and will not be resolved until and unless the true values of human nature are once again honored.  When governments actually find out and provide what people are willing to pay for, they can earn the public trust and can easily sustain themselves upon a minimal monetary contribution from each member. Such contributions will be happily offered, for the fruits they bear will be apparent. Eventually, when a fully cooperative unity has been attained, the financial institutions will be deserving of the term "public trusts" and can serve as direct collection points for governmental taxes, dramatically reducing the need for entire collection and enforcement arms. The elimination of black markets makes all commerce above board, legitimizes each enterprise, and brings all humans into the cooperative whole, and thereby dramatically increases available resources. Once all individuals enjoy just freedom and empowerment, taxation can be likened to a simple banking service or a percentage interest rate charge. Public trusts and representation can even come together into some form of individual designation of how the tax dollars are to be spent. This can allow individuals to put their money where their mouth is. In this way the values which bring the most cooperative empowerment will naturally emerge.  In our present economic environment, corporations do their best to avoid paying their share of the revenue. In some cases, they are completely successful in finding sufficient loop holes in the tax laws to the point of avoiding taxes altogether. In a competitive system, this practice is naturally encouraged. However, since the cost of paying taxes is usually passed on to the customer as a cost of doing business, there can be no justification for avoiding this responsibility other than the mentality of pure greed. A general simplification of the tax laws could be the only practical solution, since it would remove the Murphy Law that more rules created, the greater the opportunity for exceptions.  Public Infrastructures  The government can provide many unifying pathways between citizens which can bring the maximum freedom and mobility to each individual life experience. The public educational system provides a fundamental unifier and the most direct avenue to the task of providing unifying informational resources. It will be discussed later in some detail. But there are also other structural unifiers that the government can foster and even support if necessary that not only provide safeguards, but facilitate empowering opportunities.  There is always the need for some baseline of uniformity so that all can maneuver safely and comfortably within the parameters of reality upon which we have collectively agreed. Just as rules must be in place to foster the smooth function of automotive travel, so society needs to agree to certain rules of interaction to most benefit from one's surroundings.  Major infrastructures such as transportation and communication networks, public works, public health, and community utilities are all necessary to an unconnected body. Governmental guidance and assistance can develop and link private enterprises and increase need-meeting opportunities for all and ensure equal access to survival resources. They will draw upon the inner motivations to welcome all citizens into the collective, cooperative fold and foster the honor and responsibility of creative, meaningful membership in the world community.  Even the human body could not function in an operative manner unless certain understandings of how physical health should be maintained were not innate to all levels of consciousness. If and/or when a particular portion of the body or mind began to overstep its boundaries of influence, a state of dis-ease would surely develop. Just as the Captain and crew of a ship know that an indifference of one portion of same can result in disaster for the whole, so a broadening perspective among all portions of society toward the well being of the whole is necessary for the preservation of life in this spaceship we call Earth.  The primary governmental task is to open the free market doors and ensure that the maximum amount of resource exchange and trade can occur. At present, a great deal of infrastructure is controlled by administrative government, which could just as well, if not better, be taken on by private enterprise. The governmental hand is best when gentle, temporary, and guiding rather than firm, permanent, and controlling. A government that forms itself around these innate tenets, shall arise as the most effective, economically successful, and creatively helpful to the unfolding evolutionary destiny of the human species.  In the economic arena, government serves best by holding private industry to the task of serving public need satisfactorily, while remaining with the confines of justifiable but modest profit. Private enterprises may even compete for the right to acquire that limited responsibility, so long as competition does not become an end in and of itself.  We can now examine the specifics of the cornerstone equalizer of any good government, an enlightened public educational system.  Global Government Mission Statement  To faithfully, actively, and cooperatively honor divine providence by offering universal guidance in all ways which safeguard the natural interactive processes and resources of the planet, and foster purposeful, connected, creative evolution of the human species.  Declaration Of Unity  In acknowledgement of alliance with divine biological predestiny, we the people of the planet Earth declare that:  1. By divine providence all humans are created equal; with the innate biological goodness, impetus, ability, guidance, and rights to freely control their individual destiny in cooperative concert with one another.  (Note the similarity to the first sentence of the Declaration of Independence.)  2. With the right of willful destiny comes the self-evident responsibility for humanity to purposefully, intelligently, and responsibly use culture to design systems, technologies, social structures, and cooperatives that align with and enhance natural predispositions in order to provide the most fulfilling experience for all life forms.  (Universal freedom cannot survive without an equal share of responsibility.)  3. Creative diversity shall be encouraged, in agreement that any cultural assumptions, values, beliefs, institutions, and activities shall strive to rest upon the solid foundations of natural universal principles found in the creation itself, and no longer seek to judge, defile, or deny the divinity, purpose and sacred value potential of all living beings.  (Nature, itself, can be the best illustrator of life values.)  4. There shall be no undue organized interference with the exercise of individual, willful acts of purposeful self-preservation of body, self-development of mind, and self-expression of spirit, within the guidelines of the global cooperative unity and dictates of natural emotional dynamics of adaptation and evolution.  (Freedom should predominate over outside regulation wherever possible.)  5. There shall be active, cooperative, and creative efforts to establish global freedom and equal opportunity to every human being as basic, just conditions which meet the nonnegotiable inborn needs for freedom, power, and connection; toward the goal of reducing deficit states which prompt fear, anger, isolation, and competitive defensive responses, and enhancing those desirable states which prompt joy, trust, compassion, and unified purposeful responses.  (Private citizens should have built-in avenues of communication to encourage the process.)  6. There shall be active cooperative, and creative efforts which foster social structures to enable all humans to meet the secondary needs for esteem, creativity, and meaning which foster desirable states of faith, inspiration, courage, honor, and creative delight, without undue interference with the cultural choices of other members of the global community.  (In a fostered environment of cultural exchange, this can happen.)  7. There shall be a global effort of cooperative defense to prevent, reduce and correct any violations which interfere with the free empowerment for individual countries and persons to pursue the happiness derived from purposeful value fulfillment in manners they so choose.  (For a limited time into the future, this may require a form of military action.)  Table of Contents