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This is a long self explanatory article I presented to the Sir John Templeton Foundation as noted.
It may interest many: others can ignore it
Among those interested, it will likely spark some discourse. The other side of the coin is that, in some respects, it lines up as a basis from which I presented as I did at the FZ Conference in Pasadena a couple of weeks ago.
PURPOSE: The driving force of life and of all our action.
PURPOSE: The determiner of outcomes.
Purpose is a spiritual force that can affect and mobilize the physical.
Purpose is the reason for our actions, but too often our action is without correct reasoning or good purpose.
Without known and positive purpose the God given life within us is wasted or, otherwise, dissipated in destructive and negative action.
Hence the enormity of value in knowing one’s prime purpose. Equally important is an understanding of the subject of what purpose is.
It is an omitted subject, the subject of purpose and purposes, for most in our society. It is given lip-service, glossed over, relegated to the “everyone knows what that’s about” category; and only addressed by an occasional, rare, “deep thinker”.
Yet purpose is the key to all that is achieved by mankind as a species; the very essence of our divine Life-Force when directed in the positive action of life; and it may well be the expression in each of us of the Almighty Himself.
Dictionaries fail to do the subject justice, merely noting and describing two aspects: a) the aim or object of one’s actions and, b) the deliberateness with which one engages that action.
Purpose spans a broad spectrum of (at least) five types and application: the known, the positive, the warring, the negative, and the unknown. And it is this spectrum that exemplifies not only the glories of mankind’s accomplishments, but its conflicts, its succumbing disasters and hopelessness where such exist, and its stupidities and chaos.
KNOWN PURPOSE enables co-ordination and co-creation in the pursuit of worthy and honorable objectives and outcomes that are of benefit to all.
POSITIVE PURPOSE is the stuff of bright ideas and visionary individuals, and the accomplishment of honorable achievement. When, or if, these positive, bright-idea-purposes are known, appreciated and honored by others, they can be contributed to for the benefit of all. This is the realm of industrious production that benefits others. Too often, unfortunately, bright ideas are too far out of the realm of understanding for the contemporaries of the originator; and lack of appreciation and support, and even conflict, results.
WARRING PURPOSE is the realm of deceitful untruth, conflict, hatred, and war. It is of the level of human affairs and relationships based on stupid mistrust; willful ignorance; the dishonoring of one’s fellows and their rights, beliefs and practices; and the sin of coveting another’s domain. It is also a consequence of one’s spiritual decline from known purpose and the failure or refusal to understand positive purpose; and is the indulgence of an incorrect and destructive solution to one’s perceived problems.
NEGATIVE PURPOSE is of the level of victim-hood, fears, hopelessness and failure. This is the level of “can’t” and “won’t”; of the belief that nothing works, nothing is worthwhile or right, and that there is no hope. It is the level of all consumption and no production; all problems and no solutions; laziness and waste. All purpose at this level leads to succumb, failure and death; for the purveyors of negative purpose, having failed to handle their environment and problems by warring, are sure they are overwhelmed and too weak or incompetent to survive by or at the honorable levels of positive and known purpose.
UNKNOWN PURPOSE is of the level of chaos and denial of responsibility; and of denial, avoidance and the masking of truth and knowledge. It is of the level of refusal to know another’s purpose and the denial of knowledge of one’s own. It is also a mechanism used by those who wish to war and by those who wish to be supported while they indulge their negative purposes. They can claim they “don’t know,” but in reality they are willfully unknowing for they choose to indulge falsehood rather than to seek truth.
The religious wars of the ages have been exercises of warring, negative and unknown purposes: for what would have happened instead if those that waged wars had honestly informed themselves of the actual purposes, beliefs and practices of those they chose to war upon and, properly appreciating those actual purposes, beliefs and practices, honored them. There could have been cooperation in the co-creation of betterment for all.
Such is the realm of known and positive purpose: an uplifting and benefiting of all.
But how does one form purpose? Some believe one’s “true purpose” is God given. This may be so, but observation reveals each of us is capable of creating purpose, and there is a sequence to it.
Firstly, one needs to be spiritually present and to have assumed a position from which one’s awareness is directed and applied; second, one perceives the area or object of one’s interest and attention and evaluates what is perceived; third, having concluded that the area perceived is in need or want of change or betterment one conceives of a wanted change or enhancement; four, one determines to pursue the attainment of that envisioned change or enhancement. Often, this sequence of creating purpose is so fast as to appear instantaneous.
It is this determined pursuit toward the attainment of a wanted outcome that directs one’s Life-Force, and is the power inherent in all purpose. This power emanates from the spirit of man and woman, it is not something observed in the inanimate or after the spirit has departed at death.
Ideally, purpose should be toward the optimizing of conditions of existence for all involved. However, life demonstrates this is far from always the case.
The nature of the purpose pursued — whether known, positive, warring, negative or unknown — is determined by the following factors: the emotional level at the time of the creation or adoption of the purpose, accuracy/inaccuracy of perception, the factuality of the data used to evaluate what is perceived; and any attitudes, prejudices, precepts or false notions that influence the needs and wants analysis in the purpose creation sequence.
It is observably the case that individuals in an emotional level of antagonism, hostility or anger will form belligerent purpose. A person on a more loving level of emotion is seen to form positive purpose, while people in fear, grief or apathy can be observed to incline toward negative purpose.
Indeed, this spectrum of known, positive, warring, negative and unknown purposes can be seen to align with the scale of human emotion and attitudes of interface as delineated in Alan C. Walter’s The Zones of Life .
Conflicted and warring purpose along with negative purpose can all be traced to low mood/emotional level plus inaccuracy of perception, incorrect data, or earlier wrong answers. The work of Alan C. Walter has demonstrated that all these causes of conflict and negativity can be eliminated, and individuals can operate in a more harmonious and optimum manner in life and with their fellows. It only requires honesty and a willingness to do so, with the application of the correct processes; and when these processes, as developed by Walter, are carried out, the nature and level of purpose embraced by the individual upgrades to be beneficial to all, and can even be noble.
But purpose is evident beyond the limits of a single human existence.
Purpose can be observed to exist for groups, in nature among other life forms and the inanimate and, by some, purpose is observed to exist across earlier lifetimes to the present, and even to be divine.
In 1965 I was in Bombay, India. Having concluded my business with the Indian gentlemen I’d come to see, I asked him where it would be a good place to have lunch.
“What sort of food do you like?” He asked.
“I’m a vegetarian,” I replied, though in reality I was engaged in some nutritional research. I had not been raised a vegetarian.
“An Australian who is a vegetarian, what is your religion?”
It was a legitimate question, for in India, the matter of religion determines all in respect to food. All Hindus are vegetarian.
“I am a Christian,” I replied.
“Ah, that quaint religion which does not believe in reincarnation,” he said with a friendly twinkle in his eye.
And he was right. In 1965, in many respects, the Judeo-Christian West was spiritually illiterate. Alone among the cultures on Earth, we in the West did not appreciate and honor our individual spirituality, true immortality, and capacity for reincarnation. Yet the historical written records of Origen and Augustine show that early Christians honored this knowledge. Sadly, this knowledge was not passed down to us in the writings and teachings we inherited.
Today it is common to read of celebrities and others discussing their experience of earlier lives. Books and television documentaries abound on the subjects of “out of body” and near death experiences.
End of Part 1 . . . .
It may interest many: others can ignore it
Among those interested, it will likely spark some discourse. The other side of the coin is that, in some respects, it lines up as a basis from which I presented as I did at the FZ Conference in Pasadena a couple of weeks ago.___________________
OBSERVATIONS ON THE SUBJECT OF
PURPOSE
SUBMITTED TO
THE POWER OF PURPOSE INVESTIGATION
THE SIR JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION
May, 2004
CATEGORY
SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS
3494 WORDS
Roger E. Boswarva
__________________________
OBSERVATIONS ON THE SUBJECT OF
PURPOSE
SUBMITTED TO
THE POWER OF PURPOSE INVESTIGATION
THE SIR JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION
May, 2004
CATEGORY
SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS
3494 WORDS
Roger E. Boswarva
__________________________
OBSERVATIONS ON THE SUBJECT OF
PURPOSE
PURPOSE
PURPOSE: The driving force of life and of all our action.
PURPOSE: The determiner of outcomes.
Purpose is a spiritual force that can affect and mobilize the physical.
Purpose is the reason for our actions, but too often our action is without correct reasoning or good purpose.
Without known and positive purpose the God given life within us is wasted or, otherwise, dissipated in destructive and negative action.
Hence the enormity of value in knowing one’s prime purpose. Equally important is an understanding of the subject of what purpose is.
It is an omitted subject, the subject of purpose and purposes, for most in our society. It is given lip-service, glossed over, relegated to the “everyone knows what that’s about” category; and only addressed by an occasional, rare, “deep thinker”.
Yet purpose is the key to all that is achieved by mankind as a species; the very essence of our divine Life-Force when directed in the positive action of life; and it may well be the expression in each of us of the Almighty Himself.
Dictionaries fail to do the subject justice, merely noting and describing two aspects: a) the aim or object of one’s actions and, b) the deliberateness with which one engages that action.
Purpose spans a broad spectrum of (at least) five types and application: the known, the positive, the warring, the negative, and the unknown. And it is this spectrum that exemplifies not only the glories of mankind’s accomplishments, but its conflicts, its succumbing disasters and hopelessness where such exist, and its stupidities and chaos.
KNOWN PURPOSE enables co-ordination and co-creation in the pursuit of worthy and honorable objectives and outcomes that are of benefit to all.
POSITIVE PURPOSE is the stuff of bright ideas and visionary individuals, and the accomplishment of honorable achievement. When, or if, these positive, bright-idea-purposes are known, appreciated and honored by others, they can be contributed to for the benefit of all. This is the realm of industrious production that benefits others. Too often, unfortunately, bright ideas are too far out of the realm of understanding for the contemporaries of the originator; and lack of appreciation and support, and even conflict, results.
WARRING PURPOSE is the realm of deceitful untruth, conflict, hatred, and war. It is of the level of human affairs and relationships based on stupid mistrust; willful ignorance; the dishonoring of one’s fellows and their rights, beliefs and practices; and the sin of coveting another’s domain. It is also a consequence of one’s spiritual decline from known purpose and the failure or refusal to understand positive purpose; and is the indulgence of an incorrect and destructive solution to one’s perceived problems.
NEGATIVE PURPOSE is of the level of victim-hood, fears, hopelessness and failure. This is the level of “can’t” and “won’t”; of the belief that nothing works, nothing is worthwhile or right, and that there is no hope. It is the level of all consumption and no production; all problems and no solutions; laziness and waste. All purpose at this level leads to succumb, failure and death; for the purveyors of negative purpose, having failed to handle their environment and problems by warring, are sure they are overwhelmed and too weak or incompetent to survive by or at the honorable levels of positive and known purpose.
UNKNOWN PURPOSE is of the level of chaos and denial of responsibility; and of denial, avoidance and the masking of truth and knowledge. It is of the level of refusal to know another’s purpose and the denial of knowledge of one’s own. It is also a mechanism used by those who wish to war and by those who wish to be supported while they indulge their negative purposes. They can claim they “don’t know,” but in reality they are willfully unknowing for they choose to indulge falsehood rather than to seek truth.
The religious wars of the ages have been exercises of warring, negative and unknown purposes: for what would have happened instead if those that waged wars had honestly informed themselves of the actual purposes, beliefs and practices of those they chose to war upon and, properly appreciating those actual purposes, beliefs and practices, honored them. There could have been cooperation in the co-creation of betterment for all.
Such is the realm of known and positive purpose: an uplifting and benefiting of all.
But how does one form purpose? Some believe one’s “true purpose” is God given. This may be so, but observation reveals each of us is capable of creating purpose, and there is a sequence to it.
Firstly, one needs to be spiritually present and to have assumed a position from which one’s awareness is directed and applied; second, one perceives the area or object of one’s interest and attention and evaluates what is perceived; third, having concluded that the area perceived is in need or want of change or betterment one conceives of a wanted change or enhancement; four, one determines to pursue the attainment of that envisioned change or enhancement. Often, this sequence of creating purpose is so fast as to appear instantaneous.
It is this determined pursuit toward the attainment of a wanted outcome that directs one’s Life-Force, and is the power inherent in all purpose. This power emanates from the spirit of man and woman, it is not something observed in the inanimate or after the spirit has departed at death.
Ideally, purpose should be toward the optimizing of conditions of existence for all involved. However, life demonstrates this is far from always the case.
The nature of the purpose pursued — whether known, positive, warring, negative or unknown — is determined by the following factors: the emotional level at the time of the creation or adoption of the purpose, accuracy/inaccuracy of perception, the factuality of the data used to evaluate what is perceived; and any attitudes, prejudices, precepts or false notions that influence the needs and wants analysis in the purpose creation sequence.
It is observably the case that individuals in an emotional level of antagonism, hostility or anger will form belligerent purpose. A person on a more loving level of emotion is seen to form positive purpose, while people in fear, grief or apathy can be observed to incline toward negative purpose.
Indeed, this spectrum of known, positive, warring, negative and unknown purposes can be seen to align with the scale of human emotion and attitudes of interface as delineated in Alan C. Walter’s The Zones of Life .
Conflicted and warring purpose along with negative purpose can all be traced to low mood/emotional level plus inaccuracy of perception, incorrect data, or earlier wrong answers. The work of Alan C. Walter has demonstrated that all these causes of conflict and negativity can be eliminated, and individuals can operate in a more harmonious and optimum manner in life and with their fellows. It only requires honesty and a willingness to do so, with the application of the correct processes; and when these processes, as developed by Walter, are carried out, the nature and level of purpose embraced by the individual upgrades to be beneficial to all, and can even be noble.
But purpose is evident beyond the limits of a single human existence.
Purpose can be observed to exist for groups, in nature among other life forms and the inanimate and, by some, purpose is observed to exist across earlier lifetimes to the present, and even to be divine.
In 1965 I was in Bombay, India. Having concluded my business with the Indian gentlemen I’d come to see, I asked him where it would be a good place to have lunch.
“What sort of food do you like?” He asked.
“I’m a vegetarian,” I replied, though in reality I was engaged in some nutritional research. I had not been raised a vegetarian.
“An Australian who is a vegetarian, what is your religion?”
It was a legitimate question, for in India, the matter of religion determines all in respect to food. All Hindus are vegetarian.
“I am a Christian,” I replied.
“Ah, that quaint religion which does not believe in reincarnation,” he said with a friendly twinkle in his eye.
And he was right. In 1965, in many respects, the Judeo-Christian West was spiritually illiterate. Alone among the cultures on Earth, we in the West did not appreciate and honor our individual spirituality, true immortality, and capacity for reincarnation. Yet the historical written records of Origen and Augustine show that early Christians honored this knowledge. Sadly, this knowledge was not passed down to us in the writings and teachings we inherited.
Today it is common to read of celebrities and others discussing their experience of earlier lives. Books and television documentaries abound on the subjects of “out of body” and near death experiences.
End of Part 1 . . . .
