The Human Future will be determined by a very small minority of the human populace. This minority will not be politically, religiously, or economically motivated, unless we fail to create a suitable minority of moral protagonists. THF offers a process which enables people to become moral protagonists. The task at hand is to locate, motivate, and lead those individuals in the attainment of a higher moral state.

Higher moral states are characterized by enhanced decision making and more will towards purpose. Thus, individuals who attain higher moral states must instruct, inculcate, direct, guide, and provoke others in moral transition.

The greatest challenge in this task is overcoming the endemic cultural and systemic genetic weakness of the species.

Our genetic weaknesses are derived from necessary biological adaptations which were necessary for our survival. Lasciviousness, greed, anger, and indolence are prime examples of systemic genetic faults. These are reflected in and expanded by numerous generalized cultural faults, such as hatred, nationalism, bigotry, sexism, selfishness, covetousness, arrogance, and insensitivity. To overcome these faults, we must focus the will which results from our natural morality towards reducing their effects and enhancing our opposing positive attributes.

We have many genetic and cultural strengths which serve to counteract and occasionally supersede our weaknesses. Our innate intelligence, perception, reasoning, moral sense, and will MAY overcome the most pervasive negative characteristics. Social structures may serve to enhance and reinforce our strengths by contributing values and beliefs which support desirable outcomes, by teaching methods and approaches which produce desired outcomes, and by providing opportunities and resources which maximize individual potential. The degree to which a culture expects and reinforces moral behavior determines the extent to which it is produced.

Instead of burdening ourselves with the woes of contemporary cultures which have little, if any, moral basis, we must focus on individual morality until a sufficient core of moral protagonists is developed. As the process may restart with any one moral protagonist, it is virtually unstoppable. Even as the structure grows, each and every protagonist remains autonomous. The result is analogous to a starfish which grows whole new organisms if cut into pieces. In time, a new morality based culture will unfold.

This culture will be built upon a foundation of truth, reason, and purpose with the underlying expectation that all its constituents choose and behave morally. The greatest measure of success for this culture will be its collective ability to judge morality and to generate will towards purpose. Its purpose will be to maximize human creativity, awareness of truth, and opportunity to mature morally.

It is both unnecessary and vain to deal with the specifics of a more moral culture. We must increase our own morality in order to have a clearer vision of this new culture and we must enhance our own creativity before we will be able to engineer and manage its implementation. No matter what angle we view the future from, its creation begins with each of us NOW.

The THF process is a sub-set of the "Moral Transformation" process originally designed by Rich Van Winkle. It was developed in parallel with the "Creative Transformation" process of John David Garcia. Both have roots in the "Omega Transformation" process defined by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. It is a cyclical reintegration and expansion of intrinsic human moral elements; perception, awareness, conscience, consciousness, reason, and will and a social reinforcement structure advancing ethical methods, noble values and beliefs, and emotional control. The process is not demanding intellectually, has no "rituals", and few prerequisites. If completed, the process will ALWAYS fulfill its purpose. The major barrier to completion is adequate commitment to morality (esp. the whole truth).

   In order to assure that the human future moves towards worthier results we must assume responsibility for creating physical, biological, social, and spiritual structures which provide maximum opportunity for individual and collective growth while minimizing the potential for destructiveness.

The process by which we create these structures integrates the most positive human attributes with a clearly articulated unifying purpose. Using the most evolved methods and strategies available and new ones which must be created, humans must cooperate synergistically with each other and symbiotically with all life in the ecosystem.

The holistic human concept of perfection may serve as a beacon towards the most enlightening purpose. The grandest goal is to create a universe better than the one created for us. The measures for success are ordered and interwoven...

                 To maximize creative potential and outcome

                 To maximize truth and awareness

                 To maximize beauty and inspiration

                 To maximize joy and justice

As structures and systems are created with the intent of fulfilling human purpose, we must use our perceptual abilities and extensions thereof to determine actuality or objectiveness. Reasoning must serve to compare our results with our expectations and to ascertain required alterations (feedback).

This treatise will specify one of many possible paths towards a more survivable and more purposeful human future. This path was derived by examining, evaluating, and extending evolutionary outcomes in order to establish the purpose of human existence and the means to fulfill it. No attempt to defend or support this process is included as such has been done in prior works. My hope is that the truth of this will be obvious to many, intuitively correct to all, and accepted by enough.

Evolution: Evolution is the primary manifestation of ultimate creation (Godliness) in our universe. The human species is the local culmination of the creative effects of evolution. It is this effect which causes localized short term exception to the second law of thermodynamics (entropy must prevail). In essence, the result of this effect is the sacrifice of long term local (our solar system?) energy towards short term (a billion years?) advancement of ordered complexity.

The human species has achieved two or more quantum levels of ordered complexity above other beings in its surroundings. The tremendous price in ecological damage and risk is compensated for in the fantastic creative potential which has resulted. Given the exponential increase in damage and risk, the time available for recursion may be very short (.1-10,000 years?). The human future depends upon human creative intervention in the evolutionary process.

Human creativity is the natural extension of those forces and features which we are able to predict and control. However, unless such creativity is directed towards survival and growth, we will stagnate and die. We are capable of creating our own future and indeed, we must. The forces which oppose evolution (entropy) increase concurrently with quantum evolutionary change and require increasing intelligent will to control. Failure to extend adequate control of those forces could easily result in catastrophic evolutionary consequences. (Such as the extinction of a species?)

Evolution is most easily measured as the increase in ordered complexity within any system. "Ordered", thus used, implies function towards purpose. To gauge orderedness, we must identify the purpose of ordering and relate the outcome of the orderedness to the fulfillment of purpose. If we can reproduce and verify the perceived relation through instrumentation, we have "objectified" the relationship. If we believe that the relation exists because of intuition or reason, then it is a "subjective" relationship.

(The scientific process serves to objectify subjective relationships. It is not the only process which does such, and because our instrumentation limits its application, it is not comprehensive.)

As we identify and extend the primary outcomes of evolution, we may summarize the progression as follows...

     Creation>>> Energy>>> Matter>>> Molecular Systems>>> Life>>> Thought>>>

    Reflective Thought>>> Moral Thought>>> Moral Behavior>>> Creation

Within the scope of our awareness (objective and subjective) the greatest creative act and outcome is the universe. Because the creation of another universe with the same cyclical progression identified above starts a new "loop", the process may be described as reproductive and continuous. At the current state of human awareness, such an act seems incredibly complex and powerful (rather like a nuclear bomb might seem to a Roman of 200 B.C.)  

Evolution will yield beings capable of grasping and controlling evolution. This is necessary because a threshold or barrier exists in the evolution/entropy continuum which prevents "natural" evolution from progressing without conscious willful intervention. Unfortunately, the very process which produces conscious willful beings inherently produces tangential effects which compound the odds against their success. There may even be intrinsic processes (like cortical rejection) which only allow one type of conscious willful being in any ecosystem and only one opportunity for "transformation" to a secure evolutionary level.

Transformation processes occur at determinate levels in the evolutionary continuum. Once energy reaches a determinate level of ordered complexity, matter appears. Once matter reaches a determinate level, molecular systems (i.e. crystals) appear; molecular systems produce life, life produces thought, and thought produces awareness of awareness. An adequate level of ordered complexity in awareness of awareness produces moral awareness which may yield moral behavior. Each of these transformations occur as an intrinsic result of the "natural" increase in ordered complexity which is caused by evolutionary pressure.  

The human future is dependent upon the accomplishment of the next transformation process prior to the "accidental" destruction of its supporting structures, the ecosystem and moral awareness. We now understand the process of transformation and its prerequisites. We have the potential to create this revolutionary evolutionary event, if we choose to do such.

Entropy:

To grasp the meaning of entropy, it is useful to consider one of its most observable and pervasive manifestations, death. We know and understand death. We fear it, we regret it, and we welcome it. For without death, none of us would exist or could exist. Entropy is as critical to evolution as death is to life. 

The transition to chaos parallels the transition to orderedness. The difference is simple, entropy always prevails on the larger scale over the longer time span. Evolutionary success is a temporary localized condition. The future is determined by the continuous interaction of evolutionary and entropic "forces" as characterized by the natural forces and features which we study in physics and biology. Given no other factors, the short term destiny of any system is rather predictable.

As evolution succeeds in establishing its small short term transformations, dramatic changes in "destiny" occur. By the time evolution achieves beings who are aware of evolution, direct intervention in destiny is possible and common. Human "will" circumvents natural forces and causes an instability and unpredictability in the "natural" order of the ecosystem. Unless human will supports the expansion of ordered complexity in conjunction with natural evolutionary forces, great damage is likely. 

Currently, on the whole, the human species is not supporting evolution. In the balance of human good and human destruction, entropy is "winning". Unless we expand and extend our potential to do "good", we will consume our opportunity to achieve the level of awareness required to fulfill our destiny. As we increase our technical skills without directing the result towards moral purpose, we simply accelerate our destructiveness. We rely on our technology to correct destruction (or risk of destruction) caused by our misdirected technology; a cycle which can only lead to ultimate disaster.

(This should not imply that technology is to blame or is inherently destructive. Technology is a needed extension of human potential, IF directed towards moral ends.)

To move in harmony with natural evolution, we must understand and compensate for the effects of entropy. 

Will: As evolutionary transformations occur, a primary result is "will". Will is generally understood subjectively, but has totally eluded objectification. Will occurs during each quantum transformation described before. The most apparent examples are:

   Energy>>>Matter - Will to coalesce 

   Matter>>> Molecular Systems - Will to reproduce

   Molecular Systems>>> Life - Will to survive 

   Life>>> Thought - Will to sacrifice

   Thought>>> Reflective Thought - Will to advance 

   Reflective Thought>>> Moral Thought - Will to create

Each advancement in type of will also produces quantum changes in levels of available will. Humans manifest each of the above types of will to various levels. We demonstrate our will to sacrifice in our investment of time, energy, and resources in our children and fellow humans. We demonstrate our will to advance in the investment of time, energy, and resources in "pure research" which offers no immediate tangible outcome. We demonstrate our will to create in the time, energy, and resources we invest in the creation of structures and systems which produce moral outcomes (actually very rare). 

Our ability to grasp future possibilities and the natural forces and features which cause future events or circumstance, gives us the awareness of our own ability to alter the future. All humans constantly will short term insignificant events into reality (esp. our own behavior). Sometimes, we are effective at willing behavior which causes longer term significant events. Those who approach or transcend the threshold of moral thought have access to far more effective will and greater amounts of will to cause long term significant events. This does not mean that those individuals utilize that will.

The rudimentary function of human "mind" is the creation and focusing of will. The essential evolutionary adaptation is to focus that will on worthwhile purpose. Individual and cultural flaws (resulting from entropic forces) greatly diminish access to and focusing of will while distorting recognition of purpose. Unless we succeed in removing those flaws, we will destroy our potential to create a more moral future, thus reducing our ability to identify and remove individual and cultural flaws. This powerful and prevalent "spiral" is clearly evident and growing. 

Structures: To break free from the pull of this entropic spiral and assure that the human future moves towards worthier outcomes, we must create or improve  structures which provide opportunity for individual growth. These structures range from thinking processes to governments. While creating these new structures, we must minimize the potential which many current structures have for destructiveness. The task is neither simple or easy, although every requirement is well within current human potential and experience.

The starting point is within the individual. The quality of the structures we create is limited by the quality of the individuals who design and operate them. The starting point for the human future is within the individual (no surprise there!). Those who are capable of designing and operating structures which contribute to individual growth of moral potential MUST do so immediately and invest time, energy, and resources in their completion and expansion. Those who wish to participate in the human future must join with others of similar mind and purpose to improve their internal structures while more capable supporting structures are developed. 

The supporting structures have existed for many years (books, libraries, schools, etc.) will only fulfill the desired purpose when the individual is capable of utilizing them correctly. Unfortunately, there are no current structures which teach humans how to best utilize available resources for moral gain. The needed individual structures have long been acknowledged as the most positive human attributes (by the Greeks over 2000 years ago and during the Renaissance). They include reasoning and logic, communication, perception, self discipline, emotional control, and awareness enhancement. In developing most of these attributes, the eastern religions are far more advanced than western.

Methods: The process of creating the human future begins with a clearly articulated unifying purpose. It is not necessary that the whole of humanity begin with such purpose, but it is possible and desirable. The immediate need is for cooperative groups to accept a single omnipotent purpose which lies directly in line with the evolutionary path (towards morality).

   Education Example:  "To create and foster a love of learning" 

   Parenting Example:  "To build a growing, trusting relationship"

   Judicial Example :  "To seek the truth and administer justice" 

   Religious Example:  "To seek perfection in the likeness of the creator"

Humans have an innate sense of what perfection is and whether or not they are seeking it. This holistic human concept of perfection may serve as a beacon towards the most enlightening and advantageous purpose. The closer the purpose is to the immediate task, the easier it is to measure behavior in relationship to it. However, it is critical that we identify and accept  more noble and lofty purpose. The grandest tangible goal is to create a universe better than the one in which we exist. 

Creating structures and systems with the intent of fulfilling human purpose is not enough. We must insure that those structures continue evolving and that they indeed accomplish their purpose. The process of comparing result with expectation (feedback) is one of the most evolved and successful methods known. It's application in the design and implementation of supporting structures is imperative.

In order to properly utilize feedback, we must use our perceptual abilities and extensions thereof to determine actuality or objectiveness. Where outcomes are not measurable through instrumentation, we must devise quick and effective subjective indicators (tests) which prioritize methods.

Reason must rule supreme when we compare our results with our expectations and ascertain required alterations. 

The most successful structures will be those which rely on human judgment; thus, rules are avoided and guidelines are offered. Having to make ethical decisions and apply feedback to them is the most important human exercise. Developing good guidelines becomes one of the most creative aspects in designing and implementing supporting structures.

   Education Example:  "Listening lasts least. Action abides always" 

   Parenting Example:  "Actions speak louder than words

   Judicial Example :  "An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"

    Religious Example:  "Do onto others as you would have them do onto you"

Measures: A standard or scale is required for measuring the success of supporting structures. The measures for success are ordered and interwoven...

   1. To maximize creative potential and outcome:

Individual and collective creative potential is measured by the ability to predict and control the total (physical, biological, psycho-social, and spiritual) environment. Creative outcome is measured by the extent to which creative potential is directed towards moral purpose.

    2. To maximize truth and awareness:

Total truth is measured by the product of accurate meaningful information available to beings capable of using it to maximize creative potential and outcome. Total awareness is measured by the extent to which accumulated perceptual experience contributes to creative potential and outcome.

    3. To maximize beauty and inspiration:

Beauty and inspiration are perceived, but not measured. Both serve to increase creative potential and outcome. 

    4. To maximize joy and justice

Joy is the subjective perception of fulfillment of purpose. (One can be unhappy and joyful about the same situation). Justice is state of appropriate opportunity, contribution, and reward and is measured by the security and trust provided  by a structure.

The development of measuring systems and structures is one of the most critical aspects in assuring the success of the human future. Many possibilities exist for measuring success in both objective and subjective domains. Our priorities will be most apparent in what we measure.

Cooperation:

The human future will not be created by any one person or any small group of humans. It must be continually recreated by humans who cooperate synergistically with each other and symbiotically with all life in the ecosystem.

Each human individual has equal moral potential when provided with equal moral opportunity. Through cooperation towards common purpose, we can maximize moral opportunity and provide justice for all. So long as we assume dominion over other beings, we also assume responsibility for maximizing their moral potential. Most other animals have far greater moral potential than we credit them with and may contribute to our own moral potential in ways we've yet to perceive.

The Earth is our mother, our home, and our future. If the Earth prospers, then so do we; and vice-versa. If we view our relationship with the Earth and its life as one of cooperation, all will benefit.

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