NEW YORK, NY, September 23, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Imagine the circumstances facing the sages of philosophy during the golden age of philosophy. They must have observed the chaos of life due to the bad elements in the population. The problem was with those who were criminals and those who were greedy, selfish, etc. They clearly saw that society had no problems with those who were wise. If only they could figure out wisdom and how to teach it they could create a wise society that would take away all the ills of society.
Now imagine the gigantic task facing our sages in trying to figure out wisdom! In spite of all the progress in the science of wisdom/emotional-intelligence to date there is still so much confusion and fuzziness about all that is connected to wisdom.
The philosophers made one big fatal flaw (we cannot blame them as till today we are making the same mistake about wisdom). They figured out that there were only three routes to wisdom:
1) People were born wise. For those born wise wisdom was considered a gift from God so ensuring wise progeny was too mysterious and out of man's hands.
2) Wisdom came through years of experience and so waiting for old age to becoming wise meant dealing in the meantime with unwise behavior for many years was not an option for the greater good of society. Waiting for people to start acting wise in old age was not a good enough option.
3) By controlling one's basic animal nature one could manage life by following the wisdom way by behaving wisely. Philosophy and science both decided that the only option was to insure wise behavior by laying down wise rules and enact laws to ensure wise behavior. So controlling human nature and human behavior through management became the only option for science and even religion. Thus our governments wholeheartedly embraced the science of managing the ills of society by enforcing laws to ensure a civil society.
To this day governments are not concerned with what state of mind and level of emotional intelligence/wisdom it's citizens have. All they are concerned with is that the citizens behave within the laws enacted by the government. Enacting laws and controlling and managing human behavior is still very chaotic in-spite of thousands of new laws and amendments every year. It is because people will basically behave according to the quality of their human nature and not according to the laws of the land.
After 40 years of research we have found the following:
1) There are several reasons why one can be 'born' wise. The chief reason is that infant brains/minds are conditioned with a 'wisdom-nurturing' living experience that creates a super mature emotionally intelligent consciousness/brain/mind/pure-self. So we have to create 'wisdom-parenting' compulsory seminars for parents and teachers.
2) Wisdom comes by old age because the ignorance causing emotional baggage gets gradually ground out by being exposed to the actual reality of experiencing real life over many many years. We at the 4th R Foundation have found that we can deliberately grind out this emotional baggage much faster by using the same scientific techniques that we use to make subnormal people into normal. We can take the same processes and make normal people into super normal.
3) The third way of controlling human behavior through carrots and sticks has clearly not worked. After all from the very beginnings of city-states the sages had proposed managing bad behavior as a reluctant option. Their first choice was making society wise. Well now that we know that wisdom is an innate function of the pure self we must make pure-self education a top compulsory priority.
We at the 4th R Foundation in order to define emotional intelligence/wisdom within the paradigm of science have quantified the human brain/mind as follows:
1) Premature mind of a new born child quantified with a value of negative 2.
2) Immature mind of a teenager quantified with a value of negative 1.
3) Mature mind of an adult quantified with a value of positive 1.
4) Super mature mind of a master quantified with a value of positive 2.
Quantifying the mind means that every human behavior is now quantified. Take the example of war and peace. War is a premature activity having a value of-2. State of war is an immature activity having a value of -1. Truce is a mature activity having a value of +1. Peace is a super mature activity having a value of +2. In order to achieve +2 results one must start with +2 ingredients especially if the supply of -2 ingredients on both sides is unlimited.. Take the example of World War 1 and 11. The first war defeated Germany with -2 ingredients. The -2 ingredients resulted in another -2 World War 11. Only the +2 Marshal Plan created the current +2 relations between the warring factions.
There are many many practical applications in all the mind sciences including education and even in philosophy and sociology. Even moral values can be quantified and based on pure science.
a) Do good because it is a +2 super mature thing to do. Do not commit evil as it is a -2 premature thing to do.
b) The aim of education becomes crystal clear. To teach formal education to create doctors, engineers and scientists etc. and another compulsory subject that teaches everyone to become a +2 self master.
c) As there are four levels of the mind there are four levels of people in every society and four levels of countries. Those that are at the lower level can be shown why they are at this level and how they can be educated to the +2 level. Thus groups and even countries can be taught self mastery. Laws, policies and priorities can all be graded and replaced with +2 activities. With a +2 mind even ordinary dead end situations become opportunities for over coming failures. We can go on and on with practical applications.
Just imagine all these thousands of years wasted and history of man filled with disastrous episodes powered by the collective emotional baggage of man. Imagine individual lives on a massive scale confused and restless living with the affects of emotionally challenged minds/brains, struggling to be free to taste pure happiness.
The first and biggest step that our government and science should now take is to review our proposal of how to bring back mankind at the individual, group and country level on to the path of wisdom.
Controlling emotionally challenged behavior in man through laws has failed. America is where it is today because of our emotional intelligence is messed up for the mass majority of our citizens. We can correct this. Please pass this on to all those who can take action. The science of knowing, understanding and becoming one's true self should have been science's first priority. Instead science developed a wrong belief about the self, mind, I, self image etc. All that is connected with consciousness was considered more or less unknowable. The time has come when we must go back to the first choice of our philosophers by creating a wise society by making our citizens wise.
Just imagine all of thousands of years wasted and history of man filled with disastrous episodes powered by the collective emotional baggage of man. There is a better way for governments to manage emotionally challenged behavior; by making man wise.
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