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PLENEURETHICS A New Concept in Healing |
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VIII
/ Chapter 7 ETHICAL ASPECTS OF PLENEURETHICS |
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Schools Each school of philosophy or religion preceding Pleneurethics was good to the extent that it restored and preserved neural competence. All things that constructively promote neural reserve are good. That which destroys it unproductively is bad. Also, that which serves one’s own end, but harms others is both good and bad in proportion. If, on balance, the bad overrides the good by substantial margin violence has been done to ethics. The Pleneurethical man or woman derives little real satisfaction from identifying closely with any limited school of thought, fraternal group, restricted association, or power structure. This is so because the Pleneurethical person belongs to a much larger group and power structure: the universe and all that which lives within the boundless expanse of their system. The Pleneurethical person may take up an association with this or that group for his own personal reasons such as a hobby or a vocation. But he never will rely upon association with any organization to supply him with a meaning for life or a refuge against all adversity.
There is at present a school which teaches the use of drugs to instantly
alter reality as an acceptable life style. Mind bending The aim of the school of Pleneurethics is to integrate each person on a realistic ethical level so that he becomes efficient within himself and effective in civilized society. That which disintegrates any person may be suspect of being sinful and/or unethical. Thus, for example, lying is sinful on two major counts. The person who lies is disintegrated in the sense that he thinks one thing, says another, and does yet another. Moreover the liar is a problem in the neighborhood, because those who act on the basis of his lies are eventually caused extra effort because of the The youth who plays foolish games recklessly may injure his body into one form of disintegration or another. He is sinful to the extent that he impairs himself by his thoughtless act. As a consequence, he becomes an unproductive burden on society.
Philosophies in Collision
Battles fought because the people of one nation look down on the people
of another nation will likewise be discontinued. War between the
religious factions will cease, because there will be no factions. People will be regarded as brothers and sisters under the skin, but differences of the skin and outward appearances will be tolerated and even keenly appreciated. What person wishes to be exactly the same as another person? What person really wants to have exactly the same possessions, occupation, viewpoint, outlook and vocational goals of all other people? Difference among people is to be encouraged, except they all subscribe to the rule of eternal ethics. There is a battle now as there has always been bloody battles in the past. But the real battle is not where one might think it to be. The real battle is not between nations, nor is it Communism versus Democracy. The real battle is with each man within himself, each woman within the depth of her being, and each child struggling to achieve its highest destiny. Man must learn to dwell ethically within himself, if he would stop war and crime and misery. Preachers preaching a wishful message that war must stop are but prattling immaturely. The real preachment is: Each man the world over must look within himself and purify himself. After this has been done, wars will cease forever. The real battle is not for power to marshal material or personal possession. Nor is the real battle one waged by the havenots against those who possess luxury of surplus material. The real battle is waged by each person against that which depresses his or her own high moral achievement. A war between Christians and Pleneurethicists is not inevitable. If it comes, it will be the Christians who will carry the battle to those of Pleneurethics. As
Pleneurethics gradually expands its sphere of influence, the churches
will carry combat to its tormentor. The church has much to lose. The
Christian church collectively has more wealth and influence than any
other institution it offers occupation for countless
Seeds of Arrogance The church squirms under the penetrating glance of Pleneurethics. Original sin, said by church to cast permanent sin on all men forever, is now recanted. For centuries the churlish church has impressed man in vain- glorious bondage to church by their authoritarian charge that all men are depraved by virtue of original sin on the hands of their forefather, Adam, with his fractious wife, Eve. For centuries the arrogant church has seized upon an inherent insecurity in man and cultivated his insecurity by efforts at ego destruction so as to establish the church as the only temporal avenue of salvation. Such salvation is not from a real insecurity but from a spurious, illegitimate, bastard, insecurity stemming from the very church ostensibly seeking to save souls. The church set up its own sinful duck, then shot it on the seat in the pew.
Meditation It must be recognized that people may meditate themselves out of touch with the real world not only spiritually but scientifically as well. Many so called “scientists” and “doctors” are merely frustrated persons who could not operate effectively in the real world; hence, they withdrew into their own private fantasy of the chemical world. Here they dream their lives away about mysterious concoc- lions that will enable them and their patients to live beyond the realm of reality. Discontent with the secular and withdrawal from it, signify fail- ure to adjust to realities of life. The inability to cope with the tem- poral is not a franchise for flights into prolonged meditative fantasy.
Freedom In the living of life, people are encouraged to freely elevate themselves ethically. According to Pleneurethical precept, they should attempt this only in a way that will also enable others to do likewise. Therefore, they must not diminish any other person as they themselves strive for elevation in enlightenment. But people must beware of the sacred cows who would push them off the surface of the earth. If, in their push, they violate the law of ethics, they must expect a counter push in effort to preserve a balance.
The end of life is in its living. A person who is a sacred cow must
beware that he may be consumed by the very fire he sets. Be There were nations where everyone freely took from each other those things he wanted. No one had more than the shirt on his back, because, if he had two shirts, some one liberated his extra shirt and wore it into tatters. Such countries were invariably poor. No one could accumulate anything because the minute he did, and turned his back, it was stolen. There is no wealth or industry in such countries. These countries were at one extreme of the materialistic continuum. At the other extreme there are countries where material is so sacred that a man who steals a loaf of bread may be sent to prison for life or be executed by a death sentence. Pleneurethics sees problems in both such extremes and envisages a more moderate view on material property in time to come. Such countries as the United States at its best enable thrifty persons to accumulate wealth and to provide the basis for industry which leads to gainful employment of people searching for jobs. Corporations which mislead or harm the public as well as consume its products are not Pleneurethical. Corporations, such as those which mislead consumers about the nutritional value of their cereal breakfast foods, should take a long ethical look at them- selves. Pleneurethics especially deplores writers and illustrators of present and past who always depict people of foreign lands as inferior or criminal. Such freedom of the press and pen cause hardship in the extreme.
Woman The only constructive way that men and women may truly achieve equality is in the common goal sought. The common goal in Pleneurethics is a better civilization won through the application of Absolute ethics.
Youth Many of the problems of youth can be traced directly to irrele- vant living goals of modern civilization. Youth seeks the true, the rational, the relevant; but it is nowhere easily available in modern civilization. Pleneurethics can change all this. Because Pleneurethics outlines a life of relevancy of unlimited scope and of supreme ethics, the youth now have something firm and steady and practical upon which to build their lives. They no longer need to turn their lives over to weird cultish families to find their solace and destiny. They now have Pleneurethics to guide them. Youth can now turn their attention to the Pleneurization of their being. In doing this, they cannot ignore their bodies nor their minds, nor their diets which nourishes their minds and their bodies. It all affects the Dleneuritv of brain.
Pleneurethics is a true guide for the best possible life on earth.
Because it is completely ethical, Pleneurethics lays a proper basis for
any life that may exist once release from earth occurs. Through
Irresponsible Destruction Pleneurethics criticizes the old because much of it is no longer useful and proper. But Pleneurethics would not destroy it with revolutionary abandon. Rather Pleneurethics would reshape it by impressing it briefly in another mold and then letting it spring free to seek another level. Much of the old is still useful. Its total destruction would create havoc and anarchy. People who support and advocate such violence obviously have no clear perception of what they really want. If they did, they would head positively in that direction by avoiding the waste of energy and unproductive dislocation that is characteris- tic of total revolution. Pleneurethics teaches a rational basis for life on earth. From this concept, the improvement of civilization may reasonably be expected. How long it will take for Pleneurethical teaching to filter down to each person to improve his welfare is conjectural. But it could proceed rapidly once the basic concept reaches the attention of men and women in general. Pleneurethics is best understood by those uncommitted to any particular view. Those persons irreversibly dedicated to any pre-existing line of thought ought not to upset themselves by a reading of Pleneurethics. Although Pleneurethics is true in science and ethics, it could be considered controversial simply because much pre-existing scientific and theological dogma is false in part or in whole.
The Church If they really wish to enrich their own lives, they should attempt to enrich the lives of others by endeavoring unselfishly to improve the level of civilization. Life will be no longer barren and poor for them personally, if they become involved in the temporal world as it really is and endeavor to upgrade the quality of life for those about them. In Pleneurethics there is no jealous Being who demands renun- elation of all other gods. The Absolute of Pleneurethics is demo- cratic, but it does not excoriate the prince. In Pleneurethics there is a place for the proper prince as there is a place for the many peons. Because, with the Pleneurethical heart, the peon is the true king and the real prince is the willing slave to the needs of those looking to him for mature advice and assistance and affection. The Absolute of Pleneurethics makes no special covenants with any particular group of human beings. It sees not one form of life as fairer than all the rest. Pleneurethics does not, as theologians do, belittle the honest effort of practical scientists who labor unselfishly to unravel the secrets of the universe. Especially abominate are theologians who ridicule science and then, after enormous effort some scientist unbolts one more door of knowledge, take credit for it as a specific example of God’s work. This is naught but clever and crafty oppor- tunism on the part of theologians. It does them little credit. Theologians, in their characteristic excesses, deride honest and sincere scientists in one shrill breath, but in the next breath they say it was God who tickled the brain of Thomas Edison to produce the electric light bulb. In Pleneurethics the Christian Deity and all other such Super Figures are excluded. Such a Deity has no place in Pleneurethics for it does not deal in spirits or fear or blind faith or mystery, nor does it want a band of sheep over which to ride herd. Pleneurethics embraces an Absolute who is steadfast. The church inveighs against murder or capital punishment, yet it destroys people as it sternly excommunicates and ostracizes peo- ple to living death. Banishment for alleged heresy and paganism is a cruel and unusual mental punishment which is not tolerated in the Pleneurethical world. The Christian church has arrogated to itself and has monopolized the source of ethics among men for centuries. Because of this arrogant ascendancy of the church, those who deny the church or do not meet the requirements of the church are labeled spiritual bastards and impure. They are cast out of civilized society by the church. Pleneurethics would scorn a church-which refuses the Eagle Scouts to honor a fully qualified candidate simply because the youth comes from an atheistic family. The church repudiates all righteousness except that which is in the name of the Christian church. The mysteries fail to offer a reliable guide to ethics. If there were reliability in the mystical approach to life, there would be but one church. Instead there are scores upon scores of denominations, sects, beliefs and philosophies of life scattered over this earth.
Eternal Ethics Through Pleneurethics people are urged to be content with small things. For in the small may be found the large. In the doing of the small, more time is available to develop penetrating insight into the grand scheme of things. Over the years as maturity approaches, people should try to be satisfied with less and less material things rather than more and more. Pursue the little things of the material world so that energy remains for all else in the grand ethics to be seen in true perspective.
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