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Volume VII
PLENEURETHICS: |
| by Richard Bangs Collier |
| EDITED BY John N. Terrey
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Second Edition
Copyright © 1971 by The Pleneurethics Society
Library of Congress
First
Edition Printed by
The Pleneurethics Society Press
DEDICATED TO THOSE The purpose in issuing a second edition of the eight original volumes of Pleneurethics: A New Concept of Healing is to provide a complete record of the origin and evolution of Pleneurethics. As first published, the original volumes were basically notebooks. They were hurriedly written to capture the relentless flood of ideas which were in my head. Time did not permit me to give the attention needed to organization, structure, and grammar. I asked John Terrey to edit the series with an eye to organization, structure, and grammar. His efforts have improved the quality of the books without doing any violence to the original writing or ideas. I thank him sincerely for his tireless efforts. “The
most commendable of all competencies is that life which reflects
ethical wisdom. In the life devoted to achieving ethical wisdom, all
things of universal virtue are unselfishly fostered."
The reader deserves an apology for the author’s having taken seven volumes to make a fairly comprehensive, although very rough, first draft, of the scope of Pleneurethics. The field to be covered was greater than initially anticipated. At times he questioned his own ability to complete the task he had set for himself. However, the initial work is now virtually completed. Pleneurethics illuminates the way to a more meaningful life and a better quality civilization for all. Although there may be countless ways, each with different color and shape, they will look in harmony; because they will observe a common destiny. Broadly speaking, Pleneurethics is an international system of relevant thought and ethical behavior which is aimed at improving world civilization. It does this by assisting the individual to be a better person physically and mentally through enlightened neurological management. Briefly, and on another level of abstraction, Pleneurethics is a way of life and a system of therapeutics based on the notion that chronic personal dissatisfactions are caused by patterns of disorder in the central nervous system. Therapy is aimed at the restoration and preservation of central neurological competence, thereby reversing the course of undesirable events. The brain is postulated in Pleneurethics to frame the range and vigor of mentality of the mind; the brain also is believed to influence somatic systems operations and coordination. If the brain remains traumatically undisturbed and is physiologically stable, the mind will enjoy a hospitable abode, and the body will revel in undiminished basis for buoyant, virtually, irrepressible good health. If the brain is traumatically distorted, both the mind and the body will manifest mental and physical upset concurrently. ~1971
The seventh book of Pleneurethics, printed in Hong Kong by the South China Morning Post, was written during a very pleasant period of my life. I had cracked the riddle of long-term degenerative illnesses, their cause and cure, during the preceding year in the sixth volume of Pleneurethics.1 All that remained was to expand my vision of Pleneurethics and to tidy things up. With the completion of the seventh book, (Volume VI in first edition format, Volume VII in second edition form), I felt that my life’s work had been completed and that nothing more would be required of me. However, I was mistaken. There is always something additional that needs to be accomplished in the field of Pleneurethics. A few days ago, October 1994, I was invited to a faculty lunch at a local college. I happened to find myself sitting near a scholar who curtly demanded to know “What is Pleneurethics?” I have always been at a loss to answer such questions briefly, and I am reticent about boring people with a long explanation at an informal gathering. Pleneurethics has many facets. It is very difficult to discuss them in one sitting. Since I am now close to 80 years old, I simply lack the energy, even if I possessed the inclination, to make a long statement on the subject of Pleneurethics. Also, if people are really interested, they should read my books. Only a few people have ever told me that they read the books. One such person was Ruth Austinhirst who, a few years later, graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude from the University of Puget Sound. She reported that she had located and read all of the Pleneurethics volumes (Hong Kong First Editions) during the period that she was a
page xiv I recall an episode at Whitman College around the time Volume VII had come off the press. A professor of Physics at Whitman College invited me to his office for coffee and a discussion of Pleneurethics. I gave him a very tight and lucid explanation of basic Pleneurethics. My extemporaneous monologue lasted for two hours. He did not interrupt because there were no hesitations in my impromptu dissertation. His only comment was “You said nothing wrong.” I never saw him again, although I was invited several times to meet with him and his colleagues. I was just too busy on my Pleneurethical project. After the Whitman episode I have been disinclined to speak seriously on the subject of Pleneurethics because people usually only want to hear my voice. The brain with its major extension—the spinal cord—and the cranial nerves plus the peripheral skeletal nerves together make up the brain system of Pleneurethics. The brain system is protected from external physical assault by the bioductory system. This system has other purposes as well, namely to support the brain system in proper anatomical configuration and to provide surfaces of attachment for some skeletal and visceral muscles. The brain system cannot function properly if its anatomical posture is incorrect. The bioductory system is anatomically co-axial with the brain system and escorts it throughout the body. The biophysical relationship between the brain system and bioductory system is exceedingly important in the health/illness dynamic. Any structural problem in this critical co-axial relationship will be transmitted to the brain, which in turn will reflect some degree of functional difficulty to all Pleneurethical quadrants surrounding the brain, because of their co-axial co-mingling.
In addition to the
co-axial relationships between the brain system and the bioductory
system, there is also a co-axial relationship between the mind and the
brain. This relationship is less physical than that between the
bioductory system and the brain system. It is also more focused. While,
the bioductory system is coterminous The third Pleneurethical quadrant is chemical in nature and looks to the co-axial relationship between the blood and the brain. Although the blood system nourishes the entire brain system, more blood goes to the operating tissues of the brain itself than any other portion of the brain system or other body parts of equal weight and size. This speaks to the overriding importance of the brain in human affairs. The fourth Pleneurethical quadrant is occupied with the manner in which the culture influences the ability of the brain system to function. Are people too warm, too cold, savaged at football or boxing, hounded by frivolous law proceedings or attacked by youth because recalcitrant children cannot be disciplined by their parents for fear of being charged with child abuse and sent away to languish in prison? Are they set upon by priests or other radical followers whose zeal remains unrestrained because the hierarchy of this or that faith demands it?Whereas the fourth quadrant has at times a very distant co-axial relationship with the brain, the first quadrant which is composed of the bioductory system, has a very intimate, even commanding co-axial relationship with the brain. When the co-axial relationship between the first Pleneurethical quadrant and the enclosed brain system is traumatically distressed—all hell can break loose. In any co-axial devise, for example, the co-axial cable attaching a television set to the program sources, its physical structure will influence its electronic function. The cable may be flexed and pressured within limits without harming its ability to carry the program. However, if the cable is damaged through excessive mechanical trauma, its ability to faithfully carry the electronic message will be impaired. In such cases, the permanent cure for the electron malfunction is physical in nature, not electrical. In much the same manner, a biophysical trauma to the bioductory system may cause co-relative problems in the brain system with onward consequences such as chronic anxiety in the mind, chemical disturbances in the blood and supporting organs, physical problems in the skeletal bones and supporting muscles, and even outrageous or substandard conduct by members of the nation’s cultural and social environment. The cure for such chronic symptoms consists of biophysically restructuring the traumatized bioductory system to normal structure and function. This will remove traumatic assault on the brain system and enable the brain to work properly with its surrounding quadrantal environments. Pleneurethical exercises are biophysical in nature and are often very effective in restoring health after it has been forfeited to accidental trauma. The brain system is the central axis of the physical body, but the integrity of the bioductory system very often determines the quality of mental and physical life. In those instances wherein the quality of life is adversely affected by the chronically traumatized bioductory system, self-help may be very effective. This self-help is administered after mastering a series of Pleneurethical biophysical exercises. These exercises, over a period of time, may restructure an ailing bioductory system and restore the neurological basis for good health in the somatic tissues of body and mind. The rejuvenated brain system/bioductory system relationships will also form the basis for normal blood chemistry and frame of mentality. As an ailing member of society is restored to health, the culture of the nation is also improved.
Those people who
would heal themselves or others of chronic illness must first master the
puzzle of the bioductory system. They must understand the anatomical
structure of the bioductory system and then learn to remove any problems
that may have taken traumatic residence therein. They must also
understand the intricate relationship between the bioductory system and
the brain system. The great secrets of Pleneurethics cannot be
communicated by words or pictures alone, they can only be won through
very hard introspective work and self-analysis projected over a long
period of time. Those people who wish to relieve the baneful effects of
a traumatized bioductory system and brain system must first master the
secret of bioductory As for my personal history, I was not born rich so I was obliged to earn my own living and to make my own way as best I could. The country was in a deep economic depression, but I managed to find occupation doing the things that interested me most as a teenager: electronics; radio theory and radio communications; riflery and ballistics; and the austere military life. I detested the thoughts of further schooling in some college, and felt very fortunate to be allowed by the military to enlist in the Third Signal Company at Fort Lewis, Washington during a period when even infantry enlistments were frozen. I quickly moved from Fort Lewis to the Presidio of San Francisco where I operated at the heart of the great military international communications system. Then on to the Washington, Alaska Military Communications and Telegraph System (WAMCATS) with assignments to Anchorage and Fairbanks. This ended my experience with the Signal Corps (U.S. Army) except for about three years during World War II when I was assigned to an enormous U.S. Army Signal Corps Communications complex in Asmera, Eritrea, Africa. On my way to and from Asmera, I spent several months in Heliopolis—a suburb of Cairo, Egypt. It was here that I began to experience a great upwelling, even a burgeoning uplift to the mystical component of my life and thinking. The solitary evening walks in the barren landscape adjacent to the Nile were eminently inspiring, as were the journeys to Axum (sometimes spelled “Aksum”), a very few miles South of Asmera. Axum is the alleged repository for Christendom’s most sacred and famous icon—the ark of the covenant. Axum is an ancient city of legendary significance dating back to a pre-Christian period; and it is the first abode of the historical Queen of Sheba—wife of King Solomon. Whether or not it is believed that only a Hebrew high priest may safely gaze upon the alleged ark of the covenant, one fact does remain—a mysterious spiritual aura does indeed seem to inhabit the land between Cairo in Egypt and Axum of the biblically ancient kingdom of Cush. In my early twenties, I transferred from the U.S. Army Signal Corps to the Civil Aeronautics Authority—later to become the Federal Aviation Administration. My first assignment was to the air traffic control system where, because of my operational and electronics experience, I was soon promoted to chief of a facility in Montana. Many promotions followed and, along the way, I purchased various aircraft—including a high performance sailplane—and took a commercial pilot’s license and flight instructor rating for single engine airplane and glider. I also received a ground instructor’s license with a rating to teach aviation meteorology. Most of my early work with the Federal Aviation Administration was in its 7th Region (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana). I was a GS-9 in the 7th Region and in order to receive a two step promotion to a GS-11, I went to the newly formed Oklahoma City Aeronautical Training Center as a Training Officer. This was followed by a year in the Air Force as a First Lieutenant in Tokyo, Japan during the Korean War. I returned to the Federal Aviation Administration and was assigned as a GS-11 Assistant Chief in a large aviation radio communications complex in the Panama Canal Zone. It was while I was stationed in Panama that I received a one step promotion to GS-12 as Deputy Island Manager at Wake Island.2 My final federal assignment was to the U.S. Embassy in Thailand as a member of the State Department. I had been loaned by the Federal Aviation Administration to the State Department to serve for five years in Bangkok as a figure in the Agency for
International Development, Civil Aviation Assistance Group. Prior to departing for my five year tour of duty in the Orient, I was ordered, from my then current position as Deputy Island Manager at Wake Island, to Washington D.C. for briefing. In Washington, I was informed that I would be going to Bangkok and would be responsible for establishing an air traffic control system consisting of air traffic control towers and ground stations for the Civil Aviation Department of Thailand. Since there were no suitable communications system facilities available in Thailand, I would also have to plan and construct a new communications system to expeditiously move air traffic control messages throughout Thailand. To help me implement my duties, I was given the authority implicit in two titles: Air Traffic Control Supervisor General and Airways Communications Engineer. I was promoted from my GS-12 rank at Wake Island to GS-13 in Bangkok, followed by another promotion to GS-14 in a few months. For those unfamiliar with GS ratings, a 14 is equivalent in authority, responsibility, and in protocol to a Navy captain or Army full colonel. It is just one step below a one star general or admiral. My knowledge of radio electronics and radio communications, as was the case for most of my knowledge, came from self-inspiration, self-teaching, and experience. I was a self-taught radio amateur at the age of 12. The Federal Communications Commission awarded me the right to employ the call letters W9PIX for my radio station. A few years later, in my mid-teens, I was awarded an advanced amateur license W7FGF. This early experience enabled me to move successively to more important positions in the fields of radio communications and aviation in the Federal Government. My career culminated in my final assignment to the Federal Department of State in Bangkok, Thailand as a member of the Civil Aviation Assistance Group (CAAG) in the Agency for International Development, U.S. Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand.
After over
twenty-five years of Federal Government employment, I requested
retirement. Within a few months I was retired with a very small pension,
small because of severe penalties imposed for early retirement; however,
I was able to pursue my destiny—namely to create a new school of thought
and application— The Pleneurethics movement has now progressed very nicely, but it needs a single word to refer to the Pleneurethics Deity. This is accomplished by employing letters from two words Pleneurethics Deity to form the new word PLEND. PLEND is an innocuous and unassuming word replete with innocence and seeming lack of authoritative force. It is far and away much weaker in sound than such words as Allah or God. PLEND, when spelled in the reverse, is not a word that I know. So it seems a good word from that standpoint. The word PLEND is not as good as I have been hoping for many years to find, but good enough for starters. So PLEND, until a better word can be found, refers to the Deity of Pleneurethics. This Deity does not demand priority ahead of all other gods, nor is it jealous. The word lacks obvious power and was not designed to strike terror in the hearts of non-believers simply by the saying of it. As words go, the word PLEND is a thoroughly, even magnificently, inauspicious word. However, PLEND will persevere and will overcome. Its power is serene and supreme. It is remorseless in the application of its law for that is the test of a true king and the appropriateness of the law.
Richard Bangs
Collier
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