Spirituality
The Solution
The Backstory
The late 1960s mark the pinnacle of the rise of liberation and civil rights movements that cemented equality, diversity, charitability, serviceability, responsibility, and accountability as the western society’s core civic values. However, after more than half a century of establishing these core values, we are recording no improvement in the rates of affective polarisation and the pressures of extrinsic goals of capitalism. Unfortunately, these problems are the core factors behind the spiralling cases of common mental disorders in society. Throughout the history of the western society, programs and agendas that work to cultivate these core civic values fail to establish them within the ultimate holistic organismic interconnectedness that impacts all of society. The reason is that these programs and agendas are politically and ideologically programmed so they are founded on an “us against them” ethos and over time they become compromised, very limited in vision and fall flat.
The AoIn perceives equality as a value of wellbeing that confronts social fragmentations, repressive otherization and affective polarisation in society by affirming,
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a vision of reconciliation and wholeness through the acknowledgement of the inevitability of diversity within the organismic framework of every society,
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and a mission of oneness, peacefulness, and forgiveness which offers equal access to fairness and justice (i.e., equity) to meet every individual’s measure of wellbeing needs.
The AoIn understands diversity as necessary to every healthy organismic structure. It indicates the heterogeneity of subjects within the organismic framework of society who express their otherness through their ethnicity, heritage, faith, ideology, ableness, age, gender, sexuality and tax brackets.
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Diversity is therefore the indicator of inequality and variations in wellbeing needs of subjects; it robustly recommends equity to prevail i.e., equal access to flourishment and wellbeing that meets every individual’s measure of needs must be available to all subjects.
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Therefore, irrespective of our otherness, we all deserve equal freedoms and benefits.
When subjects of society apprehend the awareness that their individual wellbeing is dependent on the ultimate wellbeing of the unit whole of society, they commit to one another in communion and charitability,
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a bond of oneness moulded through virtuousness, helpfulness, blessedness and thankfulness to prevail upon self-centredness, self-absorption and self-worship.
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an inspiration of altruism, moderate ascetism (modesty), grace and contentment that reject the over prioritisation of extrinsic goals, financial abuse and conspicuous consumption.
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a sharedness that convicts those endowed with capabilities and sufficiency to voluntarily support others in their state of insufficiency and incapability.
The ultimate wellbeing of society depends on our activism and altruistic commitment of helpfulness and resourcefulness in service to one another,
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fully committing to the improvement of skills, expertise, and all capabilities to engage daily worldly duties with full capacity and with no prejudice.
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facilitating social institutions to function in fairness and justice to establish values that promote ultimate wellbeing of society.
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Contributing through employment or entrepreneurship and committing to community development.
Social conscience which is a person’s conviction of responsibility towards the ultimate wellbeing of society, is manifested through the charisma of altruism, activism, modesty and sanctity of mind to apprehend virtuousness that,
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inspires upstanding character such as being law-abiding, paying taxes, supporting green and sustainability programs, honouring jury duties, never fly-tipping etc.
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dismisses negative attitudes and behaviours that harm others such as degeneracy, obscenity, lewdness, avarice, covetousness, self-absorption, hooliganism, vandalism, financial abuse and conspicuous consumption.
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promotes civic values of equality, diversity, charitability, serviceability and accountability.
The AoIn perceives accountability as the foundation that holds together the core civic values including equality, diversity, charitability, serviceability, and responsibility. Moreover, it takes the charisma of altruism, activism, pacifism, modesty and sanctity of mind to cultivate the spirit of accountability which in fulness,
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bears the fruits of virtuousness, peacefulness, forgiveness, thankfulness, oneness and helpfulness.
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establishes honesty, transparency and decency.
