The Human Mission

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A VISION OF A PERCEPTIONISM® WORLD

A Perceptionism world is a civilization of an optimization of human beings in a social structure that enables individuals to lead happy productive lives; that enable humanity to make a maximum contribution to its beneficial impact on the Universe. Such a social structure will enable an infinite evolution of the human species in that direction.

The Family

Perceptionism recognizes the family as the most fundamental basic building block of civilization. The family is the Human Incubator that provides the physical sustenance; earliest education; the functional socialization and the psychological development essential to the properly matured individual. At this time the maturation of a human individual ranges from twenty to Thirty years.

Religion

All human individual demonstrate a need for a belief structure that fulfills a Need for a sense of purpose; a sense of personal value; a way of accepting the otherwise capriciousness of personal fortune or miss fortune and/or the unpleasant prospect of death. Any or all of these become one’s religion

Most commonly, these are accompanied with a social moral code. Absence an acceptance of a set of dogmatic rules guiding human behavior the individual and a society as a whole is left with a Might makes Right moral guidance. Perceptionism offers simple Rules that are coextensively and simultaneously compatible with most existing social moral codes.

Formal Education

Perceptionism demands that the education of minor children is solely in the domain and purview of the sovereign parents. Institutions offering formal education must do so in a free, competitive and unencumbered market to assure an ever improving educational system.

Government

In a Perceptionism world, sovereignty does not rest in government. Sovereignty resides in and is vested in the individual citizen. Government only serves the individual citizens by assuring: orderly social intercourse; free, honest, competitive markets and protecting and preserving the Sovereignty of the individual over his/her Person, Property and Minor children from any and all encroachments.

Economic System

A Perceptionism Economic System will maximize the human life’s experiences throughout life’s cycle; maximize human development; maximize human achievement; while distributing its production from Land and Capital across the population honoring the range of varying human contribution to the total.

A PERCEPTIONISM® WORLD will enable Humanity to evolve infinitely to become a species possessing abilities and capacities beyond our present comprehension or imagination. Here is to be found humanity’s purpose, value, direction and happiness.

THE HUMAN MISSION

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

The Authors choose to remain anonymous for their work must speak for itself. However, the authors are a product of their genes and the genes and efforts of all their mentors, teachers and all of those who have provided them with knowledge both directly and indirectly. These people are a product of the millions of ancestors who struggled each day over the millennia to secure the survival of their children and grandchildren. If this writing has any merit it is a product of and tribute to those millions of ancestors who directly and indirectly contributed to the authors’ existence, abilities, and motivations.

Contents

ORIENTATION - A MEANING FOR LIFE

CONCEPT ONE HUMANITY’S MISSION : PERCEPTIONISM as an adjunct to one’s religous beliefs

CONCEPT TWO HUMANITY’S MISSION : PERCEPTIONISM for those who do not believe that God/Creator intercedes in their daily lives.

CONCEPT THREE A FREE ORDERLY SOCIETY A free-orderly society serves The Human Mission best.

Unit 1 THE NATURE AND VALUE OF FREEDOM

Unit 2 THE MORALITY OF AFREE-ORDERLY SOCIET

Unit 3 THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN A PROSPEROUS FREE-ORDERLY SOCIET

Unit 4 THE FAMILY IN A PROSPEROUS FREE-ORDERLY SOCIETY

Unit 5 EDUCATION IN A PROSPEROUS FREE-ORDERLY SOCIETY

Unit 6 RELIGION IN A PROSPEROUS FREE-ORDERLY SOCIETY

CONCEPT FOUR THE PRACTICE OF PERCEPTIONISM

A MEANING FOR LIFE

ORIENTATION

That which is presented here, calls for two small steps of faith. They are considered small steps because they are founded upon that which is consistent with and easily discerned from our existing knowledge and experience. The first small step is to accept that humanity contributes perception and cognisance to the Universe which is yet to be found elsewhere in the Universe – and having no perception or the perception contributed by humanity, the Universe would be lesser for human extinction. And the second step is to accept that these great achievements have been a product of large, orderly, prosperous societies and, thereby, all productive people in a prosperous free-orderly society contribute to Humanity’s achievements. This acceptance gives Humanity and each productive person value, purpose and direction.

This work describes a role for mankind in its universe. It is a foundation and framework upon which humanity can build a social order that will enable it to fulfill this role. It is a social order that can enable the many religions of our world to live compatibly in Free-Orderly societies. It is a social order that will enable humanity to maximize its potential in every respect. It is a social order of true, uncompromising civility. This social order can become the means by which humankind may survive the cataclysmic events that the geological history of Earth reveals will befall it. Geological history tells us to anticipate great climatic changes, some over short periods of time. Researchers tell us of great and severe changes in the earth’s crust. They tell us of great threats from outer space. While occurrences like asteroidal impacts always seem unlikely and remote, they can occur without notice or with only short notice. No one knows how far in the future or how remote in space. Time could be significant! And further, the social order presented here may be not only the best to enable humanity to travel about the universe, but the one that explains the reason for humanity to do so. Each human being who subscribes to the concepts presented here will make a personal contribution to the future of humanity by leading a productive life and by inculcating these concepts in their children and grandchildren, or the children of others

The basic concepts and beliefs that follow are of such a fundamental nature that continuous scrutiny will only strengthen their validity. These concepts are a product of thousands of years of recorded human experience. These concepts are a product of human achievements in perceiving the universe in which human life exists and has developed.

Some observations here are of less fundamental nature and will not withstand future tests while others will be modified or expanded upon. That is the natural outcome of ever-expanding human knowledge. To avoid efforts to perceive, explain and understand our universe, for fear that our understanding is imperfect or that it will invalidate beliefs currently held, is to avoid the very essence and nature of human intellect, the questing for new knowledge.

Readers come to this with a strong, a weak, or no belief in a Creator which perceives the universe and which exercises influence over events that affect the lives of individual human beings. Thus, all readers come to this writing with different perspectives of the universe itself. To communicate the Concepts, they are presented in a manner to be seen from two basically different points of view.

If the reader views the universe as having a Creator/God which intercedes in the daily lives of individuals, Concept 1 is offered to present The Human Mission from that perspective. If the reader views the universe as one in which Creation or a Creator does not intercede in the daily lives of individuals, Concept 2 is offered to present The Human Mission from that perspective.

The basic concepts presented here are generally compatible with most traditional religious beliefs. It is for this reason that this outline is presented from two points of view. Traditional religions, while not the subject of this outline, are treated here with the utmost respect, as they may be the beacon of one’s life. The importance of traditional religion to the concepts presented in this outline is developed throughout this presentation. A variety of traditional religions have fulfilled the spiritual, social and emotional needs of large portions of the human population for thousands of years. That which is presented here can be a supplement or adjunct to traditional religious beliefs, and when so used, will provide a clear direction or purpose for human life, and will identify a clear value for human existence. It provides a common denominator to morality, and thereby conceives a social order in which all humanity can coexist in peace, freedom. and all-inclusive prosperity. The social order offered here is one in which people of most religious beliefs can freely engage in social, economic, and intellectual intercourse and do so with respect for one another’s beliefs.

The concepts presented here compliment religious life and the role of religious organizations in a Free-Orderly society. If any religious group wishes to practice its beliefs in a society that does not practice exclusively its faith, then much of the reasoning that follows will be of particular interest.

The disclosure that follows is the foundation of PERCEPTIONISM® and ’PERCEPTIONISM as an adjunct to one’s religious beliefs". PERCEPTIONISM® and "PERCEPTIONISM as an adjunct to one’s religious beliefs" are philosophies of life that accept a few basic concepts which provide human life with purpose, direction, and a social order in which human beings can live in harmony, free of the acrimony and conflict that have always plagued humanity. Obviously, by the very extraordinary nature of such claims, that which follows will seem extreme and revolutionary in many respects. But for those who are successful in comprehending this, an uncommon understanding of human life can be theirs. Much of that which follows is outside the pathway of contemporary conventional thinking. Some will understand it if they accept that this departs from conventional wisdom. Just because some Concepts may appear to be idealistic and stray from our present condition, one should not leap to the conclusion that the ideals presented here are unobtainable. Perseverance over time can deliver humanity to a higher state of being. It is demeaning to the human intellect to surrender to mediocrity or even failure. In any event, comprehension of these Concepts will be a challenge.

This entire work defines PERCEPTIONISM®

Many of the concepts presented here are interrelated. Some of them introduced early on have a firmer foundation in concepts developed later. For this reason, it is suggested that the reader withhold judgment until the end.

The challenge for broad understanding of these Concepts is compounded by the observation that people can believe anything that can be imagined no matter how obtuse – if it can be imagined, someone will believe it to be the truth. While others will refuse to believe anything, they choose not to believe regardless of the evidence placed before them. Some readers will charge that what follows is idealist or utopian. Such an indictment is an implicit admission that if what is presented here is indeed unattainable, it points the direction in which society should strive

On this framework or outline, there can be hung much work and eloquent writing of the thinkers and scholars from throughout recorded history. While there has been little or no attempt to be exhaustive in presenting positions in the current writing, we would encourage scholarship of this sort because of the very open-ended nature of The Human Mission. The Institute of Perceptionism, in recognizing that human perception is for our purposes unending, expects that the work to refine and better explain the Concepts will continue. For clarity, perception as used here embraces all human cognizance and knowledge of the universe.

CONCEPT ONE

HUMANITY’S MISSION:

PERCEPTIONISM as an adjunct to one’s religious beliefs

Prior to undertaking Concept 1, the reader must have completed the Orientation

The intent here is to present PERCEPTIONISM® to readers, for whom the universe is sustained by God’s perception (hereafter used synonymously with cognizance). But the universe also possesses human perception that is an adjunct or manifestation of the perception of the Creator. Thus, for you the concepts presented here will be presented as PERCEPTIONISM as an adjunct to one’s religious beliefs. So presented, it is hoped that one can enjoy the wonders of one’s religion as well as the merits of PERCEPTIONISM.

An Explanation from the point of view of those who believe that God/Creator intercedes in your daily life

The sun's rays strike the rock but neither the rays (energy) nor the rock (matter) perceive this relationship. Only the God/Creator and earth’s living creatures perceive the relationship. While a serpent warming on the rock’s surface perceives the relationship, a human observer perceives these relationships best of all creatures and only the human can reach out and perceive the universe beyond his place on Earth. The human perceives the planets, the stars, the satellites, in addition to perceiving the cellular and molecular structure of life forms and so much more which exceeds that which any other creature ever will perceive.

The Creator, possessor of all knowledge and controller of all things, has bestowed upon, and thereby has shared with humanity, profound abilities, i.e. the ability to perceive the universe. Within the framework of human knowledge, no other life form has