In these days of computer-aided and computer-directed everything, fostering our human evolution (as sentient beings) is not a result at which the programming in our principal social institutions is aimed. On the contrary, it is evident that the members of our human family are being manipulated so that we will also comply with the materialist-centred priorities, as well as with an understanding of our world, that the critical management institutions in our society are being used to reinforce.

However, normal members of the human family are sentient beings, They aspire to fitting themselves (more extensively) into an operating reality, where human understanding is linked to empathy, and also to co-operation between ourselves as well as between ourselves and the remainder of our natural environment. Sentient humans recognize that our human reality is not grounded in a mechanistic focus on what our life and being is all about.

Accordingly, the thoughts to which the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow drew our attention in the first two stanzas of his poem A Psalm of Life, form a good background for our reflection on the reality into which we (in the human family) need to fit. There, he wrote –

Tell me not in mournful numbers,

Life is but an empty dream –

For the soul is dead that slumbers.

And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is Earnest!

And the grave is not its goal;

Dust thou art, to dust returnest,

Was not spoken of the soul.

We therefore need to be mindful that, while we are being rightfully busy about the process of securing our material survival, it is also prudent that (since we are essentially more than material) we need to pay attention to the steps which we must enter. toward the preservation of our humanness,.

However, an onslaught on the survival of our humanness is being currently orchestrated. This orchestration is being done by an invading predatory alien (non-human) intelligence, that in conjunction with its human and human-appearing agents and operatives, (is ensconced in the critical institutions of social co-ordination and control), where it is about the business of steering how we see ourselves, and how we understand our world. Thereby, it is about the business of steering how the civilizations in our human family are evolving.

These controlling institutions that are now under such alien occupation and direction, include mass communications, formal and informal education, government, the military-industrial complex, and organized religion.

The predatory hostile alien intelligence, uses these institutions of human co-ordination and social management, to super-impose its selfish, mechanistic, exploitive priorities, on our consciousness and on our ways of behaving In particular, by means of the promotion of capitalist economics, the members of the human family are being conditioned to use a materialist money-centred focus, to judge, and also to rank the success of their time and resource management choices. However, it is our human survival (as consciousness-directed entities) that is being assaulted.

In contrast, the human family has been endowed with an empathy-guided and sentience-linked perspective. This perspective evolves from the roots of a reality that envelopes the members of the human family, and components of the prevailing natural environment, into a prevailing bio-electric union, out of which there is a generated and attached sentience grid.

The upshot is that IF our choices and behaviours are consistent with the empathy and the co-operative imputations of the sentience grid, we can have access to opportunities for our human evolution and the enhanced cosmic associations that it engenders.

It is that opportunity for the bio-electric evolution of human consciousness, and its forthcoming and associated enhanced cosmic linkages, which the invading predatory alien (non-human) intelligence is seeking to forestall. By executing its capture and control of our prevailing institutions of social co-ordination and control, and then leading us to a money-centred materialist pivot on our adjustment to reality, this alien intelligence aims to limit the evolutionary horizons of our human family.

This money-centred measurement focus which is being promoted by capitalist economists, is the most overt application of the human dominance objectives which the invading predatory, alien (non-human) intelligence together with its agents and operators is executing. Its tactic is to o use the promotion of legitimated selfishness (called enlightened self-interest), and the cultivation of greed among us, to also generate among the members of our human family, an indifference to the wellbeing of each other. Thereby, this invading predatory intelligence plans to ultimately succeed in causing our existential rot and destruction.

Currently, we may therefore be already in the bottom of the ninth inning in behalf of our survival potential. That is because, the sentience which is at the base of our humanness, irrefutably requires that, toward achieving our human survival we must execute empathy-directed cooperative strategies, among ourselves, as well as between ourselves and our natural environment.

In the processes of our capitalist controlled socialization, we are not being conditioned into executing operations of goodwill-promotion, and of co-operation with each other as well as with the natural environment in which we are, (and also on which we depend for our material support).

Prevailing features, such as rapidly increasing levels of homelessness in the population; profit-seeking destruction of the natural environment (as governments make no more than specious public-relations statements about their commitment to environmental protection); increasing levels of social disconnectedness, (where people matter only as entities that commercial advertising can manipulate to make respective purchases or to cast their financial or their other type of "votes"); are indications that the fostering of human evolution is not a priority at hand.

It does appear that we are now on the way to being no more than raw material and implements in the various schemes of physical and emotional parasitisation, which this predatory alien (non-human) intelligence and its agents aim to use us in.

However, individually as well as collectively, we can still begin to implement the full-time task of protecting ourselves as sentient entities.. Therefore, although it may be true that the institutions which our human family normally uses to aid its coping with our reality,are already being managed consistent with the human destruction targets of this invading predatory alien intelligence, we each have a job that we can do.

Our recovery into pursuing empathy-directed co-operative sets of operations toward securing our opportunities for our human evolution is something on which each of us will need to begin to embark in full recognition of the fact that members of our human family now live in complex integrated societies, The result is that before we embark on our human recovery initiatives we need to acquaint ourselves with, and to also reflect on and be guided by an awareness of the ground rules which will accompany the successful societal living at which we aim. It is only then that will we begin to comprehend where we are, as well as where we are hoping to arrive.

1. The first step is to understand that each of us as a human being essentially comprise a unit in a bio-electric union that links us to a cosmos. in which we each have been given the potential to perpetually share, (on condition that we are prepared to pursue an empathetic and co-operative interaction with each other, and also with our natural environment).

2. As we go about our lives, if we pay attention to how our natural environment presents itself to us, and also to how it evolves, we can begin to feel what the "flower children" of the 1960s call the "good vibrations" of the potential cosmic union that beckons us. Therefore, when (under the impetus of the alien-inspired capitalist doctrine), we use the prospects of expected financial gain, as the excuse to legitimate the decimation destruction of the natural environment, it is our own existential destruction which that alien intelligence is at the same time using the greed that it has cultivated in us, to execute..

3. Each of us therefore has to find our own "home reference point(s)" in the natural environment, out of which we will begin to see our potential union with the cosmos, that is our existential lives. We can then use that or those environmental reference point(s) as the enlightenment nexus (or base) around which we take stock of the mixes of time-use activities with which we fill our lives.

4. We particularly need to recognize that, that which we call our living, is no more that the sets of positive contributions to existence, which we are using our efforts to cause to come about in the bio-electric union in which we share (with the other members of our human family, and also with the components of our natural environment).

5. It is quite easy to recognize that although money is a useful tool which facilitates complex trading arrangements in a technologically complex society, in the living that we do, it is definitely not forthcoming financial rewards that portray our success (as sentient consciousness-directed entities). What financial results from our effort and time management decisions show, is NOT about our achievements in sentient-guided living. Yet, at the same time, success that is measured in financial terms is the critical performance indicator which is relied on by banks and the corporations (that capitalists designed and set up, primarily for the purpose of making money). Politicians, that are in search of "political" contributions (and that have become implicitly in the employ of these two groups (that aim to gain from the political gambits of these politicians).rely on private personal financial gain to judge their success.

6. An invading predatory alien (non-human) intelligence is promoting and using its sponsored capitalist doctrine, to condition us into being selfish, self-centred exploitive entities, that are primarily in pursuit of financial gain; while we are at the same time being indifferent to the existential survival prospects of our human family

7. We therefore need to pay close attention to the extent to which the institutions of the societies in which we respectively live, are operating to foster our empathy-linked co-operation within the bio-electric reality to which we belong. Such attention is especially necessary, in light of the inter-personal and the inter-community predation, together with the fostering of greed and of environmental destruction which the alien-inspired, materialist capitalist doctrine is being used to perpetrate. We each therefore need to execute some "heads up" if we want to secure our potential for human evolution. .

8. To make a corrective focus (towards fostering our human survival), we each need to slow down our mad rush to acquiring more money, in order to "put on a good show", and we must instead draw on the foundations of the built-in sentience roots (that hold us in a bio-electric union to which we belong). Furthermore, the accompanying sentience grid to that bio-electric union, offers us the opportunity to pursue enhancement of our consciousness, and of our human evolution

9. We need to begin to see religion as not something that links us to an EXTERNAL deity, but is rather, (in terms of a context that provides) the opportunity for each of us to experience a personal linkage to the cosmos (that the bio-electric union in which we exist offers us, if we execute the necessary empathy-guided co-operation with each other and with the remainder of the bio-electric union). Sensitivity to his fact about religion, is necessary, because hierarchical and agent-structured organized religion, takes us elsewhere. The operating strategy of this alien (non-human) intelligence is to use programs of formal and informal education and communication to promote the selfish, greed-accommodating, and money-centred focus of the capitalist doctrine which it introduced into human society. This alien intelligence then reinforces that capitalist emphasis (on promoting our self-directed and self-serving effort commitment), by also promoting in organized religions, the existence of a deity (or set of deities).that is EXTERNAL to human reality. This external deity is then communicated as having provided (or as being willing to provide) a messenger or messengers (or "fall guys"), who it awards with the power to provide redemption to those who acknowledge that deity’s existence. The communicated understanding is that this external deity has given this redeemer, the power to deliver (to those who acknowledge the presence of that external deity), absolution from responsibility for the negative consequences and spin-off effects, that arise or that have arisen from the actions which these humans had taken or had generated, (as they pursued their personal success; notwithstanding the integrated environment of living in which they share)..

10. We need to come to recognizes that the life into which we each have been bestowed, is ALL that we have. As a result, all other possessions which we claim to have, are no more than social tolerances. Our success in sentience-guided choices of time and effort management, is therefore not indicated by net financial changes which we secure; but rather, by the extent to which our activities have contributed the development of living-centred understandings..

11. Sentience-guided effort management ushers us into the recognition and awareness of the extent to which our choices of time and effort management can operate as leverages and stepping stones, toward our survival (as a union or bonding that we share with each other and with our natural environment)...

12. If we aim to achieve human evolution, we therefore need to see our life as being a self-managed operating-space, in an existential "workshop" (into which we each have been placed). It is not merely a time-space within which (under the guidance of this invading predatory alien intelligence), we each have been given the opportunity to go out and "make some money" from our efforts at merchandising either our skills or the results from our success in plundering.

13. As we mature into our respective paths of survival, we will come to recognize our membership in the human family. We will also at the same time recognize that our living is comprised of respective diverse sets of encounters, where we are called upon to accommodate our behaviour to the passage of time, and to the presence of others, in the spirit of empathy and co-operation that the sentience grid (which accompanies our bio-electric reality), implicitly stipulates that we must pursue.

14. If we therefore neglect to aim our actions at promoting empathy and co-operation throughout the activities of our human existence, we will be placing ourselves on the road of surrender toward the existential destruction, at which the invading alien (non-human intelligence is now directing us, with the use of its agents and operatives in our midst.

Notably, for example, further evidence of this predatory herding of us, is indicated by the promotional operations of a prominent world-wide system of radio and television communications. It is now "encouraging" a world-wide "debate" regarding whether the operation of a World Economy, can be successfully fostered in the presence of multiple local democratic operations.

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Quality-of-Living and Human Development as the Outcome from Economic Progress

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