WORLD ETHIC OF INNER / SPIRITUAL DIRECTION

The radical difference of man compared to the other animals

Forget the obscure theories and stop the chatter with information, which we cannot check for their credibility or they do not need at all! The essential, immediate and obvious difference between man and animal is simply below:

Man has the immediate - internal ability to maintain and process the information of the senses and is not limited to this information. Most of the information from the sensory organs is lost, if the corresponding things which we perceive do not exist, if things do not affect us by the same ways and without the same ways of our contact with the environment. The determination of life and its influence only from its external leads to a life like is life of other animals. It leads to a life, which is determined in a random and external way, from moment to moment, with the behavior being simply regulated by changes in data of the senses, without thinking, without continuity and not creatively.

However, the difference of human beings is in the preservation and processing of its sensible data internally, without time and spatial restrictions. Man thinks about what is in memory without being in front of the eyes, thinks about external things without being present in senses, and distinguishes the information with his attention. Man maintains, processes and forms an experience and eventually man is immediately - mentally self-influenced (by mnemonic and fantastical way). Thus, man himself is involved in the determination and quality of his experience and life, in an inner - mental way and influences his body and biology. Man is not exclusively influenced by his outside, such as a dead thing, or only by the senses as other animals. Man with preserved experience and a few knowledge of external things is self - influenced, without things being present to his senses, and without things to exist or to really influence his biological body.

Thus man acquires the advantage of defining his behavior and directing his external actions, that is, the advantage to act creatively, more effectively, to predict, to specify, to cooperate, to change his life and to take into account a wider reality. Man stands out from all other animals, internally and externally from this constant ability to maintain data and processing them. It would be impossible for any living creature to think and acquire this internal - spiritual advantage if its biological specifications did not offer this ability to preserve their information and their observation, regardless of external things. If an animal will have one or more physical members, if it moves upright or diagonally, if its biological body is maintained with different organs, if it has wings or many heads, these are some adaptation phenomena for survival, which do not ensure the internal advantage of man.

Almost all human activities and moods are constantly created and influenced by preserved information and thoughts on them. And not only that, but up to the point man behaves and acts more influenced by his interior (by thinking and maintaining information) rather than by things, which really perceives externally. There is no human act that is not influenced by the previous experience and memory, and moreover man would not act creatively and in a more complex way, without maintaining the information or without observations on them. This observation of the inner ability that differentiates man from the rest of animals is the fundamental to explain many psychological phenomena unified in human life, and all deviations in human psyche and the whole of human behavior. The importance of this decisive observation has not yet been appreciated and many of those who talk about logic and spirit ignore it. The development of this mental interpretation of human behavior confirms that it is a fundamental observation.

When one finds the difference of the human "spiritual world" from that of other forms of life (somehow fragmentary), without knowing the principle that man differs, then some stupid views are formed. Such as are the views, that within man there is a spiritual substance, or that man was created for a special purpose, that human ability of knowledge is stable and that there is life and soul without any knowledge. Knowledge and thoughts are not only in the form of shared abstract concepts in the words of language. Knowledge and thoughts exist before we even express them with our voice and we regulate rapid our behavior with them. We define our actions, appreciate the information of the sensory organs and we react, without the things in front of our eyes, without things to exist and without they really affecting us. On the contrary, we create things, we change their relationships, we use things as we think and imagine and seek smart to find them. And think even, that our knowledge is incomplete and a thought is not only with the right information and mathematical consistency...

So if the role of knowledge, information, thinking, memory and language is so decisive that it causes a gap between animal and human life, then we understand that reality is not only what appears in our eyes. Another invisible reality, which we call it "internal", "psychological" and "spiritual", influences, modifies and distorts reality, as it is able and biologically affects our eye movements and visual information is changing. The ignorance of the direct relationship of the intellect with the quality of entire life and the aversion to spiritual activity are deserve our attention and reaction. Because, we waste time from our lives with pointless actions and deceitful views, and our minds are absorbed by things. But also we receive desperately the consequences of ignorance and errors within our natural and social environment, and we hurt ourselves directly with our thoughts and estimates. So, if we demand to live in reality and regulate our lives with knowledge of things and not be victims of poor information and incorrect views, then we must take care of our spirit daily and we show at least as interesting as we manifest to obtain some materials.

* A flexible translation from the book (in Gr) titled "The Global Ethic of Inner Orientation" and the subtitle "Human Fantasies and Lies Without Self-Know­ledge"