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6. Higher purpose
We have now briefly dealt with the true strength of being, safety, equality, cooperation and trust, in that order. With such solid individual foundation one is able to connect with other people who have like wise developed their column of values, connecting on the level of authentic identity and zipping up towards trust.
But this is not enough. Cooperation and trust needs a genuin purpose to get to high level sustainable interaction. Such purpose has to be large enough that the individuals cannot do it by themselves, that they need each other to be able to address the common drive. A couple that joins into a relationship or marriage may have such higher purpose, like the creation of a family. If the column of values that glues the identities together is strongly in place the marriage will last for ever. When it shows break ups or mishaps on any of the levels the relationship will only last out of self interest, greed or fear, not out of a common quest.
What we see in family life we see in any human organization, being a business, a society, a foundation or whatever. In any hierarchical organization for instance equality (level above safety) is not in place due to levels of authority and power. The identities go to work but hardly contribute to the organization. They go their for the safety of a salary and a position but not our of high level cooperation or trust.
We now see that corporate organizations challenge their hierarchies and develop their own authentic identity around a true purpose. People then change attitude when asked to contribute. When done well the people involved give often more than is asked for as they identify them selves with the higher purpose, not the job it self. When that occurs you can ask people to take responsibility too.
When the organization lacks the true drive, the authentic purpose, people will come to work but will not take responsibility. Responsibility is placed in the structure and system of the organization leading to bureaucracy to control all involved. Bureaucracy on itself is a sign of distrust in an organization or society that causes people to act with apathy and reluctance.
The current world issues evolve around the true individual identities that become aware of them selves in freedom, demanding safety and equality. Cooperation and trust can then develop if a common higher purpose is defined. Since 99% of the human world has been deprived of their true identity the world has entered into chaos.
The highest purpose that should unite humanity as a species is a healthy, safe, vital and progressively sustainable civilization. Any other purpose, such as wealth, money or power, will drive us apart and make the species vulnerable as a whole.
5. Trust = those who have nothing to loose
The fifth level of the column of values is trust. As you may recall this position comes after identity, safety, equality and cooperation. In fact “trust” is something that only can be given by people who have nothing to loose. Anyone who does have anything that can be lost will always feel a sense of worry to loose what he or she has which blocks the genuin development of an open, transparant relationship with trust.
The present day society is very much organized around money and money is something that we all need to purchase our daily needs. If we are deprived of money we do not count in this society. We hence always have something to loose: our access to a flow of money. This causes a continuous feeling of fear or worry that conditions our interaction with others. When we take money away from a relation suddenly the element of trust is an option that can be taken seriously.
Look for instance at true friendship? What can be lost but the friendship? There is no money involved in friendship so people can talk and behave freely. The same with true marriage. If love is the genuin bondage connected to the higher purpose of togetherness in one, nothing can be lost but the marriage. The fear is then the loss of the friendship or the marriage, causing it to last more through the investment of positive energy of the partners through the higher purpose that is shared.
True partnership is based on a spiritual connectivity of the two authentic identities that share the higher purpose in the deepest understanding that the bondage is much more than the sum of the individuals. Their bondage is not just a cooperation, it is one melted together with trust.
When a cooperation is initiated for personal gain then both parties have a lot to loose and will always spy on eachother out of fear of being cheated. When the personal gain is translated into money the lack of confidence will always reign in the relation making it vulnerable right from the start. Money is not the only thing people are scarred of loosing. Other elements could be their security of a welfare income, a power or hierarchical position, wealth or a herritage. In fact, everything you have can be lost. However everything you are is with you for ever, it cannot be lost.
Being is hence much more important than having and is the basis for true partnerships based on a higher purpose that is expressed by an soul issue, not an having issue. Those purposeful relationship are built on trust by people who have nothing to loose and everything to gain. Because those people remain true to themselves within the column of true values.
Exactly the same goes for business organizations and social communities. The person that can trust one self will be able to trust others. The human organization that trusts oneself on the basis genuin, authentic and value creating business development will most likely be one that works on sustainable progress serving humankind and our planet. They will also be trusted by the customers and society. They will also be trusted by partners who share the higher purpose themselves.
Trust is the layer that connects us with the highest level of awareness on sustainability issues. Trust will get us to regain balance between our complex responsibilities that need to provides us with stability and progress without damaging humanity or our planet. Without it we end up distroying ourselves.
4. Cooperation – as in marriage?
The fouth level of the column of values is cooperation. This is the first level of true connectivity between people or organizations. Cooperation is only optimally possible between people who have taken good care of a solid foundation of their personal column of values.
For cooperation two or more identities require the sharing of a higher purpose. This can be as common as a man and a woman (or man/man, woman/woman combinations also in the modern world of emancipation) who love eachother with the primary higher goal to share all moments of life together and enjoy eachother’s presence. Maybe at one stage they decide to marry and intensify the higher purpose with the desire to have children and create a family. In fact this is the most ancient and common form of cooperation. In our modern lifes we have largely abolished this cooperation as we have placed indvidual question marks around the higher purpose. We come to that in a minute.
In business, politics or on the street the true quest for a servant higher purpose is found in any key area of value creation around human existance and progress, like education, housing, safety, quality of living, water, energy, food, health, vitality, spirituality, etc. Also this original and ancient quest for continuous improvement has largely disappeared as we economized our surrounding placing a label of money on everything.
The problems that we find in marriage and society is that on paper the idealism of the common higher purpose works very well as we have seen in history many times. But in present day reality we see that the identities do not operate from the communality of this purpose but from an individualist persuit of self interest. In a modern marriage the emancipation has developed a family situation of two partners with an individual view on mutual financial independence and personal realization. This independence has become very important for both partners but often at the expense of the matrimonial stability. It all works fine if there are no children or both live and work in the same place. But when questions arise that gets one of the partners into a crisis or to make important choices that affect the other we see that the higher purpose is questioned easily and individual purpose tends to become dominant. Even if the partner choses in favor of the cooperation the choice affects the relationship as both develop a sense of debt to eachother.
Of course there are many people who manage to go through this process perfectly and they can be admired for it. But most people see equality as an individual right and the community as something that serves the individual, not the other way around. When children are born they are placed in day and evening care to allow both parents to go out to work. This results in a deterioration of parental affection with the off spring. There is a lot of scientific proof being developed now that shows that this causes long term psycological instability and a cost for society in the long term.
No one disputes the female right for economic self sufficiency or development of a significant life. What we do discuss is the way we should organize our families around the higher purpose of the safe, healthy and vital develop of our children too? When we take responsibility for own life we should not forget to take responsibility for our surroundings and in particular for our off spring.
Also large organizations and central governments confuse the higher purpose with their financial greed, often motivated by shareholder short term pressure. They often find sole their purpose to cooperate in their hunger for more. When money is the sole objective what is one willing to sacrifice along the way? We see that organizations have been built around legal destruction as money prevails in everything we do. Such cooperation ends invariably into crisis and chaos as we have seen with the credit crisis, the food crisis, energy crisis, and many other crises to come.
Sustainable cooperation from a true identity can only be done if one is willing to serve humanity and our planet oneself and work together within the context of a higher purpose that exceeds the sum of the individuals. Then the next level of the column becomes key: trust.
Sustainocracy, the new democracy 