Spirituality
The Solution
The AoIn
Maslow (1971) shows that a person at the state of self-transcendence, maintains an altruistic outlook on life where the apprehension of ultimate wellbeing of society is contingent upon their ability to extend beyond self to secure the wellbeing of others and the environment.
In a research that focused it's ethnography among the Quaker community, we observed that exemplars pursue self-transcendence and that inspires them to perceive life as a holistic experience which unfolds in an altruistic interplay; thus, becoming the agency of interconnectedness (AoIn) who interacts proactively with others to secure the ultimate wellbeing and flourishment of all of society.
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The AoIn perceives society as an organismic whole within which their ultimate purpose is to foster interconnectedness to mend fractures caused by social fragmentation and affective polarisation.
They also cultivate in people virtues and scruples that inspires the rejection of the vanities of self-absorbed and self-entitled attitudes such as over prioritisation of extrinsic goals, commodification of illicit indulgences, financial abuse, and conspicuous consumption.
By interpreting the AoIn through their charisma, virtues and schemas, we discovered in them a spirit of altruism, activism, moderate ascetism (modesty), empathy, and sanctity portrayed in virtuousness, thankfulness, oneness, peacefulness, helpfulness, forgiveness, and resourcefulness.
Therefore, the AoIn through these interpretations, affirms equality, diversity, charitability, serviceability, responsibility, and accountability as the core civic values that foster ultimate wellbeing of society.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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