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Generating Humanity's Problems
 
 
Enculturation is indoctrination into a culture's predominant belief system. When an individual adopts the beliefs of his or her culture, something significant happens that not everyone is aware of. A belief system is to an individual as a hard drive or operating program is to a computer. Whatever behavior a culture believes is natural becomes predominant in each individual adopting its basic premises, but not necessarily because it is natural.

The fact is that behavior always reflects beliefs, that behavior is always interpreted in light of those beliefs, and that this is true whether that behavior is unnatural, criminal and competitive; or natural, cooperative and loving. Beliefs are a culture's expectations, and they always manifest in a society's individual members. In subtle ways but on multiple levels adults and peers influence children, rewarding or discouraging behavior and their thinking patterns. This goes on until certain adult expectations have become a reality, which means that everything now fits the picture given. The norms that then form around this picture are adopted by most youth in a desperate effort to fit in and belong.

Our globally predominant and particularly negative theories as to the nature of earth life and human nature are incorrect. They are generating humanity's many problems. Our understanding of what motivates each individual needs to change. The way for future change is being paved as open-minded individuals become aware of errors in our mainstream assumptions in psychology and other fields, and as they move on to explore more natural concepts. The new facts, once taught, then become more real behaviors as we explained happen. This is the only way humanity can ever hope to change behavior and improve the quality of human life.

Love is not a chemically manufactured emotion evolution procured in order to generate behaviors which would help insure our survival. Our inner love is in its purest form is similar in its nature to that of a parent's love which senses a child's greatest potentials and seeks to provide every possible means and encouragement to help that child realize those potentials. This is what is as our core. This is one of the next most important lessons for humanity.

We are beautiful, cooperatively inclined creative beings needing to find a way to express meaningful purposes sensed within our hearts. We have a need to both give and receive love. Safety, security, food and shelter are only to provide a platform on which we can have our true needs met, and being loved and loving others is a central need, necessary for the kind of fulfillment each individual is after.

Each person seeks to add value to life, to make a difference in the world, and to fulfill creative instincts that result in all our personal and global advances. Each individual has a unique contribution to make, a special gift that can be offered by no other no matter how seemingly trivial or simplistic. Only the individual knows his or her proper place, and this comes by following personal loves and joy, intuition and inclinations toward certain activities or associations.

All of the philosophical ideas given by Freud, Darwin, and accepted in mainstream psychology cast a shadow on our human nature. They put a cap on how high we can go in our hearts and expectations. They deaden or dampen our personal and collective psychological climate. This hinders us across the board. When removed we will be free to progress further in all other areas.

All behavior begins with belief, indoctrination and enculturation. It is a fact that when we teach children that they are good, that they will act it out. The new consciousness-science leads us to the recognition of our fundamental goodness. As these ideas are accepted by society, they gradually begin producing new behaviors and then new norms. With new norms it becomes increasingly easier for children to behave in the new ways accepted. The process is aided due to the fact that it is actually more natural to be loving rather than hateful, and cooperative rather than violent.

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Through education and direct action we are working to solve our world's problems. We envision a peaceful love-filled future for all of humanity.

 
 
 
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