Beatitudinal functioning: Transcending a world order

 Last year, September 11, I recited a recognition that follows a long-standing participation in Beatitudinal functioning* of necessity yet voluntary, even at the cost of being thought as unrealistic: "Beautiful in theory, but defenseless in practice"--right?

We may well have some sense of the hard realities of statecraft, which often fail for a variety of reasons. It would seem that we humans at various levels endorse with inordinate attachments to  a prominence of wealth/economics and/or a of one's own nation-state as the highest goods, and do so while neglecting more noble human goods. Such goods in our present human predicament require a global cooperation instead of an investment in self-preservation. 

The American psyche has lost its nerve since 9/11/2001; and while matters are always in flux, a dominant script prevails at great loss of harmless lives.  It is observed to have become mournfully a repetitive  pattern of violence inflicting  massive toll that has us all managing anxiety with regards to a level of compromising our very global existence. 

Here’s a  vision along the lines of gleaning from the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and equitable ethics comprised in examining critically those various conflicts with a multi-disciplinary statecraft team operating on various levels, who have capacities to identifying from a large spectrum of alternative and middle way approaches while listening, cooperating and carving out peaceful solutions with other human agencies in a non-anxious manner. Possible? With wise leadership!

"The highest [leader] — the people do not know he exists" Tao Te Ching, 17

For the common citizen, peacemaking is accomplished by discerning peoples, operating on an understanding of ecumenical consensus, or endorsement of  bellum iustum, i.e. a just use of force or another of many traditions that mediate the world with a living praxis of peacemaking,  working out their own selfcare (salvific existence) participating in a modal fashion of being that is not of this world order, for the mixture creates modal confusion. Being a peacemaker is essential to having any chance at peace whether it is with yourself or others.  

 

See

https://gentlecynic.blogspot.com/2016/03/evangelicals-anxiously-forgotten-way.html

 

*Beatitudinal Functioning identifies a intelligible path to salvific dimensions of profound selfcare and community of those genuinely called out of this world order, receive and cultivate a cosmological consciousness that Jesus like Socrates and Buddha lived and shared distinctly yet of similar patterns for rising above the clamor, deceit and ignorance that prevails within and without. It illuminates  paths to finite transcendence with our ontological situation of relating to realities of finitude, existential exile, absurdity, ironies and human suffering that call for response, revolt and re-union to the goods and one’s existential home.