EQUILIBRATION: CENTRAL MODALITY OF CONCORDANT CRISIS RESOLUTION AND TRANSFORMATION

21.07.2024

Quantum Leap into a Humane Future: Reconnecting with the Noosphere and entering the Noocene

Conceptual reflection by J Michael Heynen

I Anthropocene – Crisis as a Transition to the Noocene

The present, the basis of man's future, is classified as the Anthropocene of human development: Man dominates the geosphere and biosphere of planet earth to a large extent. At the same time, this type of spatio-temporal classification reveals the associated structural crisis or meta-crisis: A life of free will and consciousness of the individual self has been displaced by technical-material domination and nihilistic overexpansion of physical life sphere. This pure system immanence, which is also maximally ego-referenced, blocks the opening of people to a humane-creative future development and causes a crisis constellation of historically unique, and at the same time civilizational extent. The central cause: the disconnection of the emptying sphere of life from the noosphere as the (meta) level that creates mind, reason, and legitimacy. The question therefore arises all the more: Will the Anthropocene become a constructive and urgent door opener for further human evolution, the transition to the Noocene?

II The Noosphere – central Sphere of new Beginnings

The noosphere is defined and described as a sphere shaped by human mental performance, consciousness and reason. In this space of spiritual interaction, the world soul is reflected - individually as well as societally integrated. In this, especially after the mastery of the bio-/geosphere has decreased significantly and human development has been retarded, a new development step of mankind, the "hour of birth" of a new kind of life is founded: Through the spiritualization of the materialized world and out of the connection with the sphere of the spiritual and reason the biosphere becomes reshaped and changed evolutionarily: the Noocene - mastery of life out of metaphysics!

III Equilibration – "Zeitenwende" instead of "Endzeit"

The development of humans in the Anthropocene thus reveals the associated structural crisis as a limitation of their further civilizational development, insofar as and since the bio-/geosphere is unilaterally ruled out of itself. This crisis-ridden turning point will become the end of time if it is not consistently understood as a "Zeitenwende". Because only the co-creative, evolutionary free capacity of man will lead him into his self-determined future. This leadership requires deducing and justifying one's "nous/noos" guided action energy from the noosphere: Human legitimacy and goal of sustainable, adequate interaction exclusively creates noospheric connectivity, especially first as a guideline of the process of change towards full and real governance of the biosphere.

The further development achievement of the human being lies in the complementary re-/ connection of the spheres and their mutually active entanglement: in the equilibration as a dynamic process of spiritualizing the material as well as in the materialization of the spirit, in order to bring spiritual things to life above all. This equilibrium, understood in this way, ensures a constantly balancing metamorphosis reasoning and forming life anew; the upcoming process of change is thus a solution to the crisis and development for the future at the same time.

IV Free Individual and Concordance

The being – the existence and its quality – is created and shaped from consciousness, the conditioned life form is determined by spirit. Transformation and facilitation of this development are the necessary basis of reason-led change processes from the individual self. Because only the individual - emancipating and transpersonalizing - is predestined to activate the "The Eternal Power of Self" (Kierkegaard) and to control the sphere of life innovatively and creatively from the reconnection with the noosphere and to specify it selectively. The reflective consciousness, individually generated, is a continuous carrier of creative meaning and will-formation also as societal development out of an initially noospherically re-/connected existence and intelligence.

In this way, from the inside out, from top to bottom, the individual human experiences himself as a co-creative part of cosmic intelligence and energy, at the same time as an autonomous, intelligible resonator of the creation process. Because the origin of the universe is not matter, but spirit (Bergson / de Chardin). In this fundamental synchronicity and congruence with the All-One, cosmic laws of thought and reason become the vertically derived driving force, captured in the reflection of human consciousness, to materialize spirit, to spiritualize life. This equilibration orders the conditions of existence from the metaphysical normativity of mind; the self as the center of man unfolds the corresponding, adequately resonant intelligence and aligning instance of universal laws and creative processes. In this way, the dynamizing equilibrium harmonizes opposites, transforms crises and conflicts and forces processes that create meaning, justice, and peace as centripetal potentials of progressively higher human development: in cosmic-legal congruence and in individual as societal concordance.

V Transpersonal Aristocracy: Excellence through Principal Leadership

The introduction and stipulation of a vertically guided/aligned equilibrium offers methods of clarifying knowledge, the structural reasons and approaches to solving the crisis as a necessary phase of the transition to the renewal of civilizational life ruling and its future-oriented design. At the beginning of the transition, the individually generated implementation of the method and orientation of the equilibration will still depend heavily on robust, principally leadership elites who act proactively and inspirationally to evoke, coordinate, and facilitate the necessary change / transition processes.

Depending on the individual ability to be free out of the self, synergetic and adequate capacities will be available harmoniously to synergize societal developments in a coordinated and integrative manner. Art and culture, as well as intelligent state leadership shaped by this, assume central functions in order to correlate societal challenges with the civilizational necessities and dynamically to develop them further. The meaning and legitimacy of the foundation of freedom and order are derived from the noosphere and consolidated as implemented in dialogical processes of equilibration. The dematerialized, creative decision-making and interaction processes based on critical reflection and reason are concentrated on the expansion of respective qualitative spaces of freedom and inter-/ societal syndication processes in accordance with transpersonal excellence.

This also applies in particular to the necessary determinants of adequately qualified leadership elites to manage and solve the transition as an opening and consolidation of the transformation. In doing so, monarchical principles of leadership must also be taken into account in particular – analogous to the conductor of an orchestra – admittedly not restorative and beyond historical degeneration from feudalism and "by the grace of God", on the contrary: the crisis-solving and sustainable renewal of the civilizational sphere of life, deduced noospherically, is based on the historicity of political awareness and the corresponding cognitive processes, but pursues humane ways and goals of societal development with the highest priority. Not material-physical conditions and/or religious projections, but immaterial-metaphysical determinants inspire and secure human evolution. Consequently, the high potential of a spirit- and reason-led, transpersonal aristocracy (i. e. the rule of the best) must be set in order to continuously guarantee the necessary responsibility and quality assurance of social representation and human-centered governance (coordination and moderation services in decision-making, facilitation of decision-making processes).

Understood in this way, the current development of the crisis will lead to its mastery and will expose the Archimedean point of a kind of Copernican turn: the humanity of individual consciousness and civility of leading societal cultures characterize the interpersonal and intersocietal interaction and processual entanglement. Analogously to a control circuit, the processes of equilibrium ennoble clarification, solution and qualitative growth in human development. Based on the awareness and self-honesty of the individual as well as appropriate transparency of (inter-) systemic functions, the Anthropocene is understood and used as a door opener for a human civilizational foundation for a humane future. Leadership based on spirit and reason replaces outdated and completely overwhelmed personalized representative systems of societal governance. The current Anthropocene developments reveal the risks of historical continuity, at the same time the potentials of creative humane progress and the power of excellent development. The crisis in transition is a necessary consequence, at the same time a prerequisite for an individual and systemic metamorphosis with the concrete goal of a noumenal world order as a priority step in a finally beginning, sustainable present of a human civilization, the Noocene: Mastery of life out of spirit!

Mesnil d'O | Baden-Baden07-08|2023