WORLD ETHIC OF INNER / SPIRITUAL DIRECTION

The priority of life for itself: a global law of ethics and psychology

The priority of life for itself is natural, biological, and becomes spiritual in man. Some desired and undesirable consequences derive from this moral law. Anyone who ignores this law, then is easily trapped as a victim of human relationships and normally creates a self-centered psychology. Then man appears misleading as "selfless" and takes advantage of trust relationships or appears sincerely as a oppressor and authoritarian and does not respect the priority that others also have for themselves. 

Priority in relationship with ourselves is a natural, biological and spiritual phenomenon. The human spirit with its information and estimates is a permanent regulator of behavior. The priority of life directly to itself cannot be disputed either by our enemy (in opposition to other moral concepts, such as that of freedom). Priority in relationship with ourselves is a natural phenomenon such as sunlight and not our own choice. The internal priority means "before everything else is myself" and what accompanies me closer and steadily. This is closer to me than my shadow and without the sunlight, but it is like a shadow of a global source with the light of spirit. Anyone can refuse to serve themselves and give priority to some others or to serve a group and behave as an executive body. He/She has this choice only for self. Dependence does not always appear as opposed to our interest in detecting the phenomenon of spiritual priority and as a defect of nature. On the contrary, the idea of freedom is contradictory to the sense of dependence and freedom is altered by the enforcement of laws, terms and prohibitions. We mobilize with dependence and need, and we devise solutions and think with more choices. (...) Priority in relationship with ourselves is natural, biological and moral. It is the fundamental principle of ethics, because the principle of life is this direct relationship that every living body has with itself. It is a perennial principle of life and the destination of life everywhere in the universe so that life can work for its preservation (as an self-acting body) and mentally exploits experience and knowledge to achieve it.

The direct relationship that every living body has with itself is biological/mental except physical, while with the human spirit it becomes moral. Priority in relationship with ourselves (fundamental principle of life and morality) also highlights our permanent participation for our action or reaction. Inevitably, we are with a spiritual existence and it evolves with our own thinking and action. This immediate priority is not interrupted either by our external action. All living beings act with internal irritations: that is, they themselves influence their behavior with psyche, intellect and their perceptions of things. With the most extreme view of lifeless bodies: When the water is waved by the strong wind, this natural behavior of water caused by reaction requires the water to be with the physical properties of a liquid and not exclusively the strength of the wind. What kind of plant will come out of a seed also not only dependent on the ground and the weather. (...) The human being is not like lifeless bodies, determined exclusively by external effects, natural, nor is like other animals, whose attention is limited to their senses. We recognize that every person himself becomes a reason to act and to react with thought, imagination, nonsense, desire -and add whatever you want. The human being is some degree regulator of his behavior and many consequences in his life. This explains why we cannot program our people and children as robots and transform them according to our smart recipes. (...) We always have a part of responsibility for our behavior (as participants in our action), even when we act under oppressive conditions, but especially for our choices and relationships that are prepared, defined and planned by us by thinking. (...) Therefore, if we form a list of rules to regulate behavior with moral principles, the first rules will be the natural choice we observe throughout the animal world: to think and take care of our survival and to live with the benefits of the biological health and the complete functionality of our body. Any theory of human behavior, cooperation and group action must recognize, respect and allow this priority (as a right) together with the responsibility it entails. Failure to recognize this moral priority allows for unethical and irresponsible behavior to violate it and - exceeding the limits - to make life a tool for exploitation. This is the beginning of "fascism".

Those who have not understood the formative power of thinking about behavior and our emotions are usually the ones who have chosen to live irresponsibly and recklessly. They think that life is meaningful with physical action, while thinking pulls man out of reality. From what reality (thought) alienates them, they don't think about it. They do not realize that the action in the sensible world is also done with information, thoughts and opinions, theoretical estimates and the choice of observations. Thus, man can just go crazy and lose reality, when his thinking focuses solely on accidental things, in information that passes quickly and are lost, and in some of the infinite incidents that are happening or watching for a few seconds. This kind of madness that motivates in action with fantasies and in a constant search for information in the sensible world, without any purpose or without utilization, has been more revealed in our time by spreading the internet. We have found the relationship of sensorial behavior and materialistic lifestyle with illusions, stupid thoughts and recklessness. This behavior has been known since ancient times, many important observations have been published and many useful thoughts have been recorded in philosophy. However, with life limited to the real world perceptions and close relationships with other people, recklessness looked more like realism. Now, with life passing in front of a screen and with the storm of information from a multitude of broadcasts with all technological devices and at high speeds (mainly from journals, radio, television, mobile phones, multimedia, etc), sensorial behavior can to be proved a kind of madness, just as the madness of those people who cannot communicate and we laugh or we regret for them. Instead of self-knowledge taught by philosophers, modern people have their spirit perforated of information, without the prospect of some exploitation, with the increased risk of misleading and with desires as formed by luck. Human life with external action again is life with thought. But thus sensorial life is regulated and influenced by unpredictable experiences, with more information, hasty estimates and expectations from some goals.

* Formulated thoughts in a flexible translation from the book titled "The Global Ethic of Inner Orientation" and the subtitle "Human Fantasies and Lies Without Self-Know­ledge"