Well, I’m back from
all my gallivanting around for work. Part of that included confirmation of the
problems with airport security, and also a couple of trips to Hobart, Tasmania.
Tasmania (I was only on the east coast, this trip,
near, as I indicated, Hobart) has absolutely magnificent scenery – world class, wonderful,
makes-you-feel-better-just-looking-at-it scenery. However, there are some
people who undo that – not my colleagues and friends, who are wonderful people,
but there were a few sour looking old dinosaurs at the airport who were making
no effort whatsoever to hide their disapproval of me – and thus made it less
likely that anyone who is not what those sour old dinosaurs consider normal
would bring their skills to that state on a permanent basis.
Those sour values are
reflected in the politicians chosen by smaller, more distant from the 21st
century places – such as far north Queensland (and Queensland generally, which
is a big part of why I am here, in Victoria).
Still, there are also
good people there, and even those reprobate dinosaurs have valid needs (such as
growing up, joining the late 20th Century, etc). And on needs …
There is a way of
viewing human needs referred to as a Hierarchy
of Needs, often associate with Abraham Maslow. That sets physical survival
needs as a base, and has more “refined” needs, such as self esteem and self
actualisation above that, with a commonly expressed sentiment that one has to
meet the basic needs before moving on to the needs shown above it – a premise
which often applies, but not, in my experience, always.
I’ve been thinking
about this, and consider that one could also use this sort of device to illustrate
the values which apply in one’s worldview. In this case, the values at the top
are more important and dominate or supercede those below. If I was to take the
stereotypical portrayal of a military person (think of the colonel played by Jack Nicholson in the film “A Few Good Men”, for example), the “Hierarchy of Values”
might be:
- Male, patriarchal deity
- Military expectations
- National interest
- Family
- Laws of the land
In actual fact, the
values which do apply – by law, and this is known and respected by those military people I personally know – are:
- International law
- Laws of the land
- National interest
- Military expectations
There is a similar
sort of disconnect, in my experience, in too many people’s values. In that
case, too many people rate personal convenience and then family at the top of
the pile, whereas it should be laws and BPM morality first, and issues of
personal convenience down at the bottom of the heap.
As an example of how
values should possibly be, consider this,
from my QAQC
Manual for Circles:
- Deity;
- the BPM Hierarchy;
- one’s Higher Self (conscience);
- the group’s BPM Guides;
- one’s personal BPM Guides;
- the group’s physical leader;
- inexperienced BPM Guides;
- sitters;
- new sitters.
For those people who
do not accept that they need to be (or to
become) BPM moral beings, life will continue to present challenges and
problems until they do recognise that and start making an effort.
There is a related
issue here, which is that of “copping out” from (avoiding / duck shoving) responsibility
As an example of
that, consider local Councils, and the work they do on stormwater drainage and
roads. Supervision of such Council works used to involve a Clerk of Works (an inspector who would visit site several
times a day) and engineers making decisions to ensure that works were either
in compliance with the specification, or that they were properly adapted for
unexpected conditions (there is a balance
in design between spending excessive amounts on preliminary investigations, and
trusting experienced and capable engineers and contractors to be able to make
minor adjustments – e.g., realign a pipe if an unknown pipe is found to be a
little too close). This was done making sure that the works were in the
best interests of society, but without being unfair to contractors (in other words, a variation would be paid
if additional works were involved).
Economic rationalism
has now changed that, but putting all the risk onto the contractor – thus giving
contractors the choice of putting prices up to cover the risk and possibly
going out of business now, or making a wild guess in the absence of data (doing investigations costs money – and,
even if all the bidders for work did do that investigation, it ultimately costs
society more to have companies repeating each other’s work, as it shows up in
overheads that get paid on the next successful bid) and going out of
business when something major is found in the future. In addition to works
being limited in their planning because of financial pressures (the down side of competition: there is an
upside as well, as it prevents monopolies, but there is a balance which has
become lost), now there are no Clerks of Work or engineers, and Councils
rely on Contractor to do what is against their financial interests and for the people
represented by the Council – and if there are any problems, such as aggressive,
foul mouthed behaviour by the Contractors, people have to sort that out
themselves – which can be a major problem if the person exhibiting the aggressive,
foul mouthed is the nominated point of contact, as happened to me a few years
ago.
The argument for this
type of change typically is that it saves money (reduced payments of salaries / fees, but also often because being
fair meant Council had to pay a bit more during the Works), but the truth
of this is that it all boils down to people not wanting the responsibility
of making a decision – no-one wanted to be the one to tell Council that
another variation was needed, or to make a technical decision (e.g., is that pipe we just found too close
or not?).
Something related to
that is being glib about matters – for instance, professional organisations
that put responsibility for maintaining qualifications onto employees, who they
have overloaded so much that said employees cannot attend conferences, and so
on and so forth.
All told, this duck
shoving shows a miserable picture of a fearful people – people who are not
evolving spiritually.
Fortunately, not all people
are like that - there are some who advocate for maturity and responsibility,
people who wish to be Balanced-Positive,
Spiritually
Mature people, and remember to live by the motto “the buck stops here”.
Sadly, there are
others, people who place their personal convenience above all considerations of
the Greater God or decency, people whose Hierarchy of Values is really a
Hierarchy of Convenience:
- personal convenience;
- least impact obligations;
- everything else.
I apologise for publishing these posts
twice, but Blogger keeps changing my formatting. I can either publish it and
then correct it, or save and close the post and correct it when I reopen it,
but that leaves an extra copy in my "drafts" folder ...
Love, light, hugs and blessings
I am revamping my former website, and getting at least one other underway (pronounced "new-MYTH-ear"; ... aka Bellatrix
Lux … aka Morinehtar … would-be drýicgan or maga
... )
My "blogiography" (list of all posts and guide as to how to best use this
site) is here, and my glossary/index is here. The reasons for my caution when using Wikipedia are here.
I started this blog to cover karmic regression-rescue
(see here and here), and it grew ... See here for my group mind project, here and here for my "Pagans for Peace" project (and join me
for a few minutes at some time between 8 and 11 PM on Sunday, wherever you are,
to meditate-clear for peace), and here
for my bindrune kit-bag. I also strongly recommend
learning how to flame, ground
and shield, do alternate
nostril breathing, work
with colour, and see also here and be
flexible.
May the best in me, my Higher Self,
and those of the Clear Light who assist me,
help me to keep myself grounded, centred and shielded,
to be Balanced and a Fulcrum of Balance,
a centre of Balanced Positivity and Spiritual Maturity,
with my aura continuously cleansed, cleared and closed,
repelling all negative or unwanted energies,
whilst allowing positive, balancing and healing energies in and through.
The real dividing line is not between
Christianity and Islam, Sunni and Shia, East and West. It is between people who
believe in coexistence, and those who don’t.
- All of the above - and this blog - could be wrong, or subject to context, perspective, or state of spiritual evolution ...
Tags: Balanced Positive, evolution, personal responsibility, Spiritual Maturity,
First published: Sunnudagr, 11th September, 2016
Last edited (excluding fixing typo's,
Blogger's change of my formatting and other minor matters): Sunday, 11th September, 2016
